IMMATERIALITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter

Synonyms:

immateriality; incorporeality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("immateriality" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immateriality"):

impalpability; intangibility; intangibleness (the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch)

insubstantiality (lacking substance or reality)

abstractness (the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object)

unreality (the quality possessed by something that is unreal)

Antonym:

materiality (the quality of being physical; consisting of matter)

Derivation:

immaterial (not consisting of matter)

immaterial (without material form or substance)

Meaning:

Complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("immateriality" is a kind of...):

irrelevance; irrelevancy (the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand)

Antonym:

materiality (relevance requiring careful consideration)

Derivation:

immaterial ((often followed by 'to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other)

immaterial (of no importance or relevance especially to a law case)

immaterial (not pertinent to the matter under consideration)