materiality
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7.9
- noun
- /məˌtɪəriˈælɪti/
:
materialidad
- Exteriority, including the exterior of the church building, evokes materiality, temporality, worldliness, and createdness.
- materiality of the body
- materiality of surface
- materiality of objects
And then information, the Internet, the metaverse that separates us from materiality itself.
- And then information, the Internet, the metaverse that separates us from materiality itself.
- So we need some something that really speaks to to the window and, and the materiality on the building.
- It's the final material step between just disintegration and it's right at the edge of identity and materiality.
Examples
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Ramsay, too, was intent on communicating the color, the texture, and the materiality of refined clothing.
Academic text (1998) -
Absent from virtual worlds, of course, is materiality, or physical reality itself.
Academic text (1997) -
The light of the sun is melting away the materiality of these structures.
Fiction book (1998) -
Yet, it is the very materiality of the church that also poses its greatest hermeneutical difficulties.
Academic text (2004) -
As we practice withdrawing our attention from the physical world and focusing it on the spiritual, our perception becomes less limited to materiality.
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We might reconsider her interest in clothing as a preoccupation with the materiality of surface.
Academic text (2013) -
Ambient sound became abstract, its immanent materiality harnessed to narrative and formal purposes.
Academic text (1998) -
The loose brushwork Sloan often employed echoes Courbet's emphasis on the materiality of paint.
Academic text (2011) -
The materiality of this sculpture allows viewers to appreciate its physical form and texture.
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In architecture, understanding the materiality of the building is crucial for both aesthetics and durability.
Synonyms
7
5.9
A clear feeling of the body and its movement
1
7.2
Being made of things you can touch
1
9.6
The state of being physical and having a body
A person, animal or thing that has a real body
Having a physical body instead of being only spiritual
Antonyms
How Physical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word materiality comes from material, which goes back to the Latin word materia meaning 'matter' or 'wood'. So materiality is about the 'stuff' something is made of and its physical, touchable quality.