immaterialityn.

Brit.

/ˌɪməˌtɪərɪˈalᵻti/, U.S.

/ˌɪməˌtɪriˈælədi/

Forms: 1500s–1600s immaterialitie, 1500s– immateriality.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: immaterial adj., -ity suffix.

Etymology: < immaterial adj. + -ity suffix. Compare post-classical Latin immaterialitas (from 13th cent. in British sources; also in continental sources).

1. The quality or character of being immaterial or not being formed or composed of matter.

a. Generally, with reference to concepts, forms of energy, sound, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > of forms of energy or conceptions of maths

immateriality1570

the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > quality of being immaterial

immateriality1814

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. bj The purity, simplicitie, and Immateriality, of our Principall Science of Magnitudes.

1662 H. More Conjectura Cabbalistica (new ed.) 130 in Coll. Several Philos. Writings (ed. 2) We may be assured that Immateriality was the work of the First Day, a Monad or Unite being so express a signification of the nature thereof.

1774 F. Hargrave Argument in Def. Lit. Prop. 19 Literary property is not invulnerable on account of its immateriality.

1797 Encycl. Brit. V. 127/1 This scheme of the immateriality of matter, as it may be called, or rather the mutual penetration of matter, first occurred to Mr Mitchell on reading Baxter.

1814 P. B. Shelley Deism in Prose Wks. (1888) I. 321 Light, electricity, and magnetism..seem to possess equal claims with thought to the unmeaning distinction of immateriality.

1863 J. Tyndall Heat (1870) ii. §22. 27 The experiment..which really proved the immateriality of heat.

1891 G. Cohen tr. E. Hanslick Beautiful in Music iv. 109 Music, through its immateriality the most ethereal art.

1932 Sci. News Let. 16 May 315/3 As if to emphasize the increasing immateriality of what was called the physical world.

1992 H. J. Rindisbacher Smell of Books ii. 133 The odor of decay, the odor of corruption, the irrefutable evidence of physical death presents a serious obstacle to a belief in transcendental existence—but in its immateriality simultaneously provides a hint at such an existence.

2007 V. T. Franks Empirical Idealism (D.Phil. diss., Univ. N.Y. at Buffalo) ii. 56 The immateriality of quantum particles hurled the most devastating blow at Newtonian physics.

b. With reference to the soul, God, or other spiritual being or entity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun]

incorporality1601

incorporeity1601

impalpability1605

unbodiliness1611

immateriality1629

etherealness1727

ethereality1811

immaterialism1824

etherealism1827

bodilessness1838

incorporeality1846

non-materiality1846

intangibility1847

unfleshlinessa1859

1629 T. Jackson Treat. Divine Essence i. 25 Hee [sc. Plato] derives their immortality, not from the immaterialitie or excellency of their nature, but from the speciall grant or Charter of their Maker.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 21 He [sc. Pythagoras] asserted the Immortality of the Soul, and consequently its Immateriality.

1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. 404 The Maintainers of the Immateriality of the Divine Substance were likewise divided into two Parties.

1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. 8 Notwithstanding this seeming immateriality, this very Ghost was not without some substance.

1815 J. Kidd Ess. Doctr. Trinity 1 The immateriality, spirituality, simplicity, and indivisibility, of the Divine Essence, does not prevent it from subsisting in personality.

1859 S. Smiles Self-help (1860) iii. 66 Speculations as to the immateriality and immortality of the soul.

1912 Biblical World 40 81 Though their abode was in the lower world, they [sc. souls after death] were felt to be allied by virtue of their immateriality and immortality with the gods above.

1954 H. C. Graef in tr. St. Gregory of Nyssa Lord's Prayer & Beatitudes 189 The authority of Pseudo-Dionysius finally established the perfect immateriality of angels.

2003 J. Haldane Intelligent Person's Guide to Relig. iv. 119 God is not another person in the universe distinguished by his immateriality and power, but the beginning and end of everything.

2. An immaterial entity; an abstract or intangible thing. Usually in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing

spiritual1495

incorporate?1533

immateriality1648

insensible1656

incorporal1678

incorporeity1743

imponderable1855

intangible1914

non-object1914

1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia xi. i. 126 In the immaterialities of our passions, there may be said to be a kind of salt or spirit, which is the most subtill and sharpe point of them.

1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. 110 A fool as I have become for thy sake & the Truths, to medle so much with these immaterialities.

1763 G. A. Stevens Dramatic Hist. Master Edward 128 Several abtruse and occult points, predicaments, qualities, essentials, and immaterialities.

1795 E. Peart Anti-phlogistic Doctr. of Lavoisier Examined Introd. 7 Terms, without ideas, cemented together by the mystic powers of incomprehensible immaterialities.

1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xiv. 253 After originating these buoyant immaterialities, projected them upon the broad current of time.

1895 M. Grant Positive Theol. xix. 303 If any immateriality is inorganic, without life, consciousness, and intelligence, so are all immaterialities.

1929 S. Angus Relig. Quests of Graeco-Roman World xiv. 240 It is easier for all to realize the tangible existences than the immaterialities.

2010 J. Spinney in T. Edensor Geogr. of Rhythm ix. 127 I have shown how the materialities of the bike and the built environment intersect with and produce the immaterialities of vulnerability, time and energy.

3. Chiefly Law. The quality or fact of being insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant. Cf. materiality n. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > unessential

indifference1644

immateriality1784

1784 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 591/2 The immateriality of plumb-pudding.

1836 Treat. Discov. Evid. iii. iv. 188 It may be said that the evidence of the third class, which has no bearing upon the question at issue, should properly be protected from disclosure on the ground of immateriality.

1894 Times 2 Nov. 14/2 To entertain these allegations at all was surely to make a considerable excursion into the desert of immateriality.

1933 Virginia Law Rev. 20 250 It is interesting to note the utter immateriality of the question as to which of the spouses in fact controls the financial affairs of the home.

1952 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 60 257/2 I am obliged to change my major criticism of their estimate from one of inaccuracy to one of vagueness and immateriality.

1999 Ann. Rep. & Accts. (J. Sainsbury plc) 34/1 Prior year amounts capitalised net of tax relief have not been restated due to immateriality.

2004 J. A. Helewitz & L. K. Edwards Entertainm. Law v. 160/1 The record shows that this evidence was rejected because of its immateriality and not for lack of foundation.

4. Lack of solidity or density; flimsiness, lightness. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [noun]

unfastness1398

debility1570

insolidity1578

unsoundness1605

tenderness1708

flimsiness1816

immateriality1886

1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 109 The trembling immateriality, the mist-like transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired.

2008 New Yorker 10 Mar. 119/1 Of course, the cake itself is of Hostess Twinkie immateriality.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	immateriality
释义	immaterialityn. Brit. /ˌɪməˌtɪərɪˈalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌɪməˌtɪriˈælədi/ Forms: 1500s–1600s immaterialitie, 1500s– immateriality. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: immaterial adj., -ity suffix. Etymology: < immaterial adj. + -ity suffix. Compare post-classical Latin immaterialitas (from 13th cent. in British sources; also in continental sources). 1. The quality or character of being immaterial or not being formed or composed of matter. a. Generally, with reference to concepts, forms of energy, sound, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > of forms of energy or conceptions of maths immateriality1570 the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > quality of being immaterial immateriality1814 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. bj The purity, simplicitie, and Immateriality, of our Principall Science of Magnitudes. 1662 H. More Conjectura Cabbalistica (new ed.) 130 in Coll. Several Philos. Writings (ed. 2) We may be assured that Immateriality was the work of the First Day, a Monad or Unite being so express a signification of the nature thereof. 1774 F. Hargrave Argument in Def. Lit. Prop. 19 Literary property is not invulnerable on account of its immateriality. 1797 Encycl. Brit. V. 127/1 This scheme of the immateriality of matter, as it may be called, or rather the mutual penetration of matter, first occurred to Mr Mitchell on reading Baxter. 1814 P. B. Shelley Deism in Prose Wks. (1888) I. 321 Light, electricity, and magnetism..seem to possess equal claims with thought to the unmeaning distinction of immateriality. 1863 J. Tyndall Heat (1870) ii. §22. 27 The experiment..which really proved the immateriality of heat. 1891 G. Cohen tr. E. Hanslick Beautiful in Music iv. 109 Music, through its immateriality the most ethereal art. 1932 Sci. News Let. 16 May 315/3 As if to emphasize the increasing immateriality of what was called the physical world. 1992 H. J. Rindisbacher Smell of Books ii. 133 The odor of decay, the odor of corruption, the irrefutable evidence of physical death presents a serious obstacle to a belief in transcendental existence—but in its immateriality simultaneously provides a hint at such an existence. 2007 V. T. Franks Empirical Idealism (D.Phil. diss., Univ. N.Y. at Buffalo) ii. 56 The immateriality of quantum particles hurled the most devastating blow at Newtonian physics. b. With reference to the soul, God, or other spiritual being or entity. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] incorporality1601 incorporeity1601 impalpability1605 unbodiliness1611 immateriality1629 etherealness1727 ethereality1811 immaterialism1824 etherealism1827 bodilessness1838 incorporeality1846 non-materiality1846 intangibility1847 unfleshlinessa1859 1629 T. Jackson Treat. Divine Essence i. 25 Hee [sc. Plato] derives their immortality, not from the immaterialitie or excellency of their nature, but from the speciall grant or Charter of their Maker. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 21 He [sc. Pythagoras] asserted the Immortality of the Soul, and consequently its Immateriality. 1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. 404 The Maintainers of the Immateriality of the Divine Substance were likewise divided into two Parties. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. 8 Notwithstanding this seeming immateriality, this very Ghost was not without some substance. 1815 J. Kidd Ess. Doctr. Trinity 1 The immateriality, spirituality, simplicity, and indivisibility, of the Divine Essence, does not prevent it from subsisting in personality. 1859 S. Smiles Self-help (1860) iii. 66 Speculations as to the immateriality and immortality of the soul. 1912 Biblical World 40 81 Though their abode was in the lower world, they [sc. souls after death] were felt to be allied by virtue of their immateriality and immortality with the gods above. 1954 H. C. Graef in tr. St. Gregory of Nyssa Lord's Prayer & Beatitudes 189 The authority of Pseudo-Dionysius finally established the perfect immateriality of angels. 2003 J. Haldane Intelligent Person's Guide to Relig. iv. 119 God is not another person in the universe distinguished by his immateriality and power, but the beginning and end of everything. 2. An immaterial entity; an abstract or intangible thing. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing spiritual1495 incorporate?1533 immateriality1648 insensible1656 incorporal1678 incorporeity1743 imponderable1855 intangible1914 non-object1914 1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia xi. i. 126 In the immaterialities of our passions, there may be said to be a kind of salt or spirit, which is the most subtill and sharpe point of them. 1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. 110 A fool as I have become for thy sake & the Truths, to medle so much with these immaterialities. 1763 G. A. Stevens Dramatic Hist. Master Edward 128 Several abtruse and occult points, predicaments, qualities, essentials, and immaterialities. 1795 E. Peart Anti-phlogistic Doctr. of Lavoisier Examined Introd. 7 Terms, without ideas, cemented together by the mystic powers of incomprehensible immaterialities. 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xiv. 253 After originating these buoyant immaterialities, projected them upon the broad current of time. 1895 M. Grant Positive Theol. xix. 303 If any immateriality is inorganic, without life, consciousness, and intelligence, so are all immaterialities. 1929 S. Angus Relig. Quests of Graeco-Roman World xiv. 240 It is easier for all to realize the tangible existences than the immaterialities. 2010 J. Spinney in T. Edensor Geogr. of Rhythm ix. 127 I have shown how the materialities of the bike and the built environment intersect with and produce the immaterialities of vulnerability, time and energy. 3. Chiefly Law. The quality or fact of being insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant. Cf. materiality n. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > unessential indifference1644 immateriality1784 1784 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 591/2 The immateriality of plumb-pudding. 1836 Treat. Discov. Evid. iii. iv. 188 It may be said that the evidence of the third class, which has no bearing upon the question at issue, should properly be protected from disclosure on the ground of immateriality. 1894 Times 2 Nov. 14/2 To entertain these allegations at all was surely to make a considerable excursion into the desert of immateriality. 1933 Virginia Law Rev. 20 250 It is interesting to note the utter immateriality of the question as to which of the spouses in fact controls the financial affairs of the home. 1952 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 60 257/2 I am obliged to change my major criticism of their estimate from one of inaccuracy to one of vagueness and immateriality. 1999 Ann. Rep. & Accts. (J. Sainsbury plc) 34/1 Prior year amounts capitalised net of tax relief have not been restated due to immateriality. 2004 J. A. Helewitz & L. K. Edwards Entertainm. Law v. 160/1 The record shows that this evidence was rejected because of its immateriality and not for lack of foundation. 4. Lack of solidity or density; flimsiness, lightness. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [noun] unfastness1398 debility1570 insolidity1578 unsoundness1605 tenderness1708 flimsiness1816 immateriality1886 1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 109 The trembling immateriality, the mist-like transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired. 2008 New Yorker 10 Mar. 119/1 Of course, the cake itself is of Hostess Twinkie immateriality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1570
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