immateriality
noun
im·ma·te·ri·al·i·ty
ˌi-mə-ˌtir-ē-ˈa-lə-tē 
plural immaterialities
1
: the quality or state of being immaterial
2
: something immaterial
Examples of immateriality in a Sentence
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
Recent Examples on the Web
Writers of short stories furnish small spaces—not ten-room apartments—with immateriality that, fragmented, creates the illusion of volume.
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Joanna Walsh
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
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
In her immateriality, Melania well represents the status of women under Trump — absent, frozen out, erased from the picture.
—Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 11 June 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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Joanna Walsh
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
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
In her immateriality, Melania well represents the status of women under Trump — absent, frozen out, erased from the picture.
—Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 11 June 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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“Immateriality.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immateriality. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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