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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MATERIAL'ITY, n. Material existence; corporeity; not spirituality.
1. Importance; as the materiality of facts.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: relevance requiring careful consideration [ant: immateriality]
2: the quality of being physical; consisting of matter [syn: materiality, physicalness, corporeality, corporality] [ant: immateriality, incorporeality]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1570 1. the quality or state of being material 2. something that is material

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Materiality Ma*te`ri*al"i*ty, n. [Cf. F. mat['e]rialit['e].] 1. The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity. 2. Importance; as, the materiality of facts.

Moby Thesaurus

accent, air, applicability, application, appositeness, atom, atomic particles, bearing, being, body, brute matter, building block, chemical element, component, concern, concernment, concreteness, connection, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, constituent, density, durability, earth, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, emphasis, ens, entity, esse, essence, excellence, existence, fire, firmness, fundamental particle, germaneness, high order, high rank, hyle, hypostasis, import, importance, interest, life, mark, mass, material, material world, matter, merit, molecule, moment, monad, natural world, nature, note, occurrence, palpability, paramountcy, pertinence, physical world, plenum, ponderability, precedence, preeminence, presence, primacy, priority, reality, reference, regard, relatedness, relevance, respect, self-importance, significance, solidity, soundness, stability, steadiness, stoutness, strength, stress, stuff, sturdiness, subsistence, substance, substantiality, substantialness, substratum, superiority, supremacy, tangibility, the four elements, toughness, unit of being, value, water, weight, worth