materiality

CEFRC1

/məˌtɪriˈælɪti/

noun

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noun
The quality of being physical or important to a decision.
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noun
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The quality of being material; having a physical existence.

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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.
1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 29
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.
2013, Robert Slifkin, Out of Time, page 19

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From material (adjective and noun) + -ity, perhaps modelled on Latin māteriālitās.