dematerialisation

Fading from existence

Dematerialisation is the process of becoming or making something non-physical.

In finance, it refers to converting paper securities into electronic records: The dematerialisation of stock certificates reduced paperwork and fraud.

More broadly, it describes the shift away from physical goods toward digital or service-based economies.

Also spelled dematerialization.

digital

virtualization

Creating simulated computing environments

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disappearance

vanishing

Ceasing to be visible

disintegration · erasure · invisibility · absence · intangibility · ephemerality · transience · imperceptibility · nonexistence · void

finance

securities

Tradeable financial assets

settlement · clearing · uncertificated · custodian

physics

quantum

Smallest discrete unit

antimatter · annihilation · photon · positron · conservation · entropy · radiation · subatomic

spiritualism

séance

Spirit communication ritual

manifestation · ghostly · spectral · paranormal · ethereal · supernatural · phantom · spirit · poltergeist · occult

teleportation

transporter

One who conveys cargo

portal · translocation · reappear · coordinates · wormhole · displacement · spatial

Opposites
physical state transition

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Becoming real, visible

solidification · condensation · crystallisation · coagulation · precipitation

tangibility/presence

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Becoming real, visible

manifestation · embodiment · incarnation · reification · substantiation

economic/resource usage

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Transition to factory-based economy

commodification · mass production

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