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单词 materiality
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materialityn.

Brit. /məˌtɪərɪˈalᵻti/, U.S. /məˌtɪriˈælədi/
Forms: 1500s materialite, 1500s–1600s materialitie, 1500s– materiality.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; perhaps modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: material adj., material n., -ity suffix.
Etymology: Partly < material adj. + -ity suffix, and partly < material n. + -ity suffix, perhaps after post-classical Latin materialitas material nature (9th cent.; from 13th cent. in British sources). Compare Middle French, French matérialité material quality (1470).
1. That which constitutes the matter or material of something. Contrasted with formality n. 1. Obsolete.In quot. a1529 Skelton is at the same time satirizing the clergy and their Latinate terminology, and the precise meaning (if any) of the word materiality is unclear.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [noun] > substantiality or subsistence > substance or being
being1340
substance1340
essencea1398
materialitya1529
stuff1587
subject1590
timber1612
primary substance1774
a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. B.viv And bryng in materialities [misprinted maierialities] And qualyfyed qualytes Of pluralytes Of tryalytes And of tot quottes.
1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. iv. 55 As in other thinges, so in Artes, formality doth well: but materiality worketh the feat.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. G7 Vitalitie..doth..move th' inert Materialitie Of great and little worlds.
1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 130 Righteousnes, which is, as I may say, the materiality of peace.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Mark ii. 28) The schoolmen say that God can dispense with the materiality of any precept in the decalogue, the three first excepted.
1652 L. S. Natures Dowrie xviii. 45 Whether..God..can dispence with the Commandements of the 2d. Table, according to the materialitie of them.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. 283 If blood be taken in its own materiality when the beast is dead.
2.
a. The quality of being composed of matter; material existence; solidity.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun]
bodiness1398
corporality1398
corporalness1398
corpulentness1398
materiality1570
bodiliness1587
materialness1587
corpulency1594
corpulencea1625
corporature1647
crassities1659
corporeity1664
bodiship1674
physicalness1727
physicality1827
grossness1862
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. *j Neither Number, nor Magnitude, haue any Materialitie.
1622 J. Hagthorpe Divine Medit. xxviii. 55 For each thing is more noble in degree, As'ts freer from Materialitie.
1700 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) iv. iii. 324 He..will scarce find his Reason able to determine him fixedly for, or against the Soul's Materiality.
1764 J. Boswell Jrnl. 27 Nov. in Boswell on Grand Tour (1953) I. 204 Boily..lies down at night and rises in the morning with a full persuasion of the materiality of his soul.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. vi. 204 The decomposition of the rays of light proves their materiality.
1863 J. Tyndall Heat ii. 25 The dynamical theory..of heat, discards the idea of materiality as applied to heat.
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 412 Wuttke says, the ghosts of the dead have to him a misty and evanescent materiality.
1978 D. Potter Brimstone & Treacle p. iii It..cannot release the smallest breath of life out of the suffocatingly dead materiality of things.
1996 Blueprint July 25/1 Its interior feels like an endless chamber (it's also connected to a historic monument and is brazen in its concrete and zinc materiality).
b. That which is material; (in plural) material things.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > material
matter1340
substancec1350
subject matter1535
making1623
material1624
substratuma1676
materiality1811
hypostase1867
materiature1881
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > thing or material object > collectively
material1587
corporeals1647
corporal1659
matter1690
materiality1811
tangibility1849
1811 P. B. Shelley St. Irvyne xii. 228 Let them suppose human nature capable of no influence from anything but materiality.
1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 206 When the grown world flounders about in the darkness of sense and materiality.
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 85 To enable it to behold God in the materialities of his works.
1855 Athenæum 3 Nov. 1267 The former believes in visions, the latter in materialities.
1880 W. Wallace Epicureanism vi. 102 The soul is a subtler and more refined materiality, which is thus endowed with more..refined perceptions than the bodily organs.
1987 A. Brookner Friend from Eng. i. 20 I thought her admirably equipped to deal with her new wealth, for Heather was above all at home with materiality.
1997 Sight & Sound Jan. 27/3 There are things in Hitchcock that become emblems... They are objects, portable usually, domestic and humdrum, clues, the little bit of materiality that attracts the camera.
3. Material or physical aspect or character; outward appearance or externality.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > [noun] > occupation with the external or mere externality
materiality1605
externality1833
outwardness?c1835
1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. sig. B4 Their actes of pietie, being placed more in the verie massie materialitie of the outwarde worke, then in the puritie of the heart.
1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. ii. 15 The materiality and imperfection of the law.
1765 S. Johnson Pref. to Shakespear's Plays p. xxvi It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible.
1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. Introd. 44 It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me, to attempt to fling myself back into another age.
1988 Now (Toronto) 14 Apr. 51/1 In..advising them on choices of wood and grain, I found myself indulging in the materiality of the woods and desiring them.
4. The quality of being relevant or significant. Now chiefly in Law: the quality of being material (material adj. 6c). Also in Accounting: the quality of being sufficiently significant to require separate disclosure.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > for purpose contemplated
materiality1644
materialness1811
society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > [noun] > quality of being material
materialness1729
materiality1789
1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh 96 A peece of unexpressible materiality, and advantageous benefit to the whole Cause.
1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. ix. p. lxxxvi There are two points, with regard to which an act may have been advised or unadvised: 1. The existence of the circumstance itself. 2. The materiality of it.
1824 H. J. Stephen Treat. Princ. Pleading 256 Rules which tend to secure the materiality of the issue.
1849 J. P. Kennedy Mem. William Wirt (1860) I. xiii. 154 The relevancy or materiality of the papers referred to was not shown.
1884 Manch. Examiner 29 Mar. 5/2 As he had an affidavit swearing to the materiality of the documents he asked for the order.
1967 Northeastern Reporter 230 452 Materiality deals with the relationship between the issues of the case and the fact which the evidence tends to prove.
1993 Accountancy Oct. 112/2 Materiality is an expression of the relative significance or importance of a particular matter in the context of financial statements as a whole.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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