IMMATERIALITY Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

immateriality

noun

ˌi-mə-ˌtir-ē-ˈa-lə-tē

Definition of immateriality

as in negligibility

the quality or state of being unimportant the cost of such a lavish affair may be a matter of some immateriality to the wedding planner, but not to the person who has to foot the bill

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Recent Examples of immateriality The material’s very immateriality disguises the building’s mass, somehow making the immense, mountainous structure appear as light as a balloon, an extraordinary feat. — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 1 June 2023 McCarthy has pocketed his own liturgical, ecstatic style as one would a coin, a ring, a key, in the service of a more demanding and heartless inquiry through mathematics and physics into the immateriality, the indeterminacy, of reality. — Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022 Grosse uses industrial spray paint on thin fabric, which is hung, not stretched, giving the painting a kind of liminal immateriality. — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019 This is a small, quiet show that potently traverses realms of materiality and immateriality, connecting ideas about what’s seen and unseen, and what’s in-between. — Gayle Clemans, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018 For all their seeming immateriality, the internet and the cloud rely on a vast industrial infrastructure consisting of data centers linked through a sprawling network of fiber optics. — James Glanz, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2017

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smallness

Noun

On Cape Ann, Rothko and Gottlieb thought a lot about the sun, as well as the sea, the sky, and the smallness of human life.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026
Both Drake and Lütke rejected Canadian smallness, the reflex that says our cities are minor markets, our companies are acquisition targets, and our culture is a regional dialect of America's.

— Kumaran Nadesan, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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