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The quality of being physical
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materiality
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Materiality is a legal term which can have different meanings, depending on context. When speaking of facts, the term generally means a fact which is "significant to the issue or matter at hand".
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "that which is the matter of something," from Modern Latin materialitas , from materialis (see material (adj.)). From 1560s as "quality of being material;" 1640s as "quality of being important to matters at hand."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being material; having a physical existence. 2 (context legal English) The quality of being of consequence to a legal decision.
Usage examples of materiality.
For the strict materiality of the fire of hell we might adduce volumes of authorities from nearly every province of the Church.
Every juridical system is in some way a crystallization of a specific set of values, because ethics is part of the materiality of every juridical foundation, but Empire-and in particular the Roman tradition of imperial right-is peculiar in that it pushes the coincidence and universality of the ethical and the juridical to the extreme: in Empire there is peace, in Empire there is the guarantee of justice for all peoples.
Both actions are exertions of power that turn out to involve a sullying Fall into materiality, or more precisely into the abject, addictive dependencies of the flesh.