noun
Meaning 1
The state of being immaterial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- the immateriality of the soul
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
immateriality
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noun
Meaning 2
the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: incorporeality
Antonyms: materiality
Broader terms: quality
Narrower terms: intangibility, intangibleness, impalpability, insubstantiality, abstractness, unreality
noun
Meaning 3
complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: materiality
Broader terms: irrelevance, irrelevancy
History
Etymology
From immaterial + -ity.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: нематериалност (nematerialnost) — the state of being immaterial
- Catalan: immaterialitat — the state of being immaterial
- Finnish: aineettomuus — the state of being immaterial
- French: immatérialité — the state of being immaterial
- Galician: inmaterialidade — the state of being immaterial
- German: Immaterialität — the state of being immaterial
- Ancient Greek: ᾰ̓ῡ̈λότης (ăṻlótēs) — the state of being immaterial
- Ido: nematerialeso — the state of being immaterial
- Irish: neamhthábhacht — the state of being immaterial
- Irish: neamhábharthacht — the state of being immaterial
- Italian: immaterialità — the state of being immaterial
- Italian: incorporeità — the state of being immaterial
- Manx: neuchorpoilid — the state of being immaterial
- Manx: neuheihltys — the state of being immaterial
- Manx: neuventynys — the state of being immaterial
- Spanish: inmaterialidad — the state of being immaterial