materiality — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. The quality of being material; having a physical existence.

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   Altri esempi (2)

   This deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiquitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love, and a knowledge of its own unconquered power. Something of the light that blazes invisible within the abysses of its normally opaque materiality breaks forth, with an increasing uproar.

   According to Judd, in his polemical statement of aesthetic purpose "Specific Objects," written the year he created Untitled, the intransigent materiality of his nonallusive objects would provide a "credible" experience for viewers, free from any external connotations.

2. The quality of being of consequence to a legal decision.

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Sostantivo

1. relevance requiring careful consideration

   Contrari

   immateriality

   Termini più generali

   relevancerelevancy

2. the quality of being physical; consisting of matter

   Sinonimi

   physicalnesscorporealitycorporality

   Contrari

   immateriality

   Termini più generali

   quality