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Immateriality

noun

(pl. immaterialities)

Complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration.

The quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter. Synonym: incorporeality.

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Etymology of 'Immateriality'

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"Immateriality" Quotes from Famous Books

... Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirit should be clothed with material forms. "But," says he, "the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts." This is easily said; but what if Milton could not seduce his readers to drop immateriality from their thoughts? What if the contrary opinion had taken ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... considered those several proofs drawn: First, From the nature of the soul itself, and particualrly its immateriality; which, though not absolutely necessary to the eternity of its duration, has, I think, been ...

— The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant • John Hamilton Moore

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