immateriality
State without physicality
Immateriality is the quality of being without physical substance or of lacking relevance.
In philosophy and theology, immateriality describes the nature of souls, spirits, or abstract concepts that exist independent of matter: Descartes argued for the immateriality of the mind.
In practical contexts, it means insignificance or irrelevance: The immateriality of his objections became clear when the project succeeded anyway.
Abstract mental construct
- ideaMental formation
- thoughtMental concept or reflection
- notionImprecise mental impression
- mentalOf the mind
intellectual · theoretical · ideational · conceptual · cognitive · intangible · incorporeality · disembodiment
Innermost animating essence
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- divineOf or from gods
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
- transcendentExceeding usual boundaries
sacred · otherworldly · heavenly · celestial · supernatural · metaphysical · numinous · mystical
Not made of matter
- insubstantialLacking physical or material substance
- impalpableUnable to be touched
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
- bodilessLacking a physical form
formless · weightless · invisible · untouchable · nebulous · vaporous · airy · gossamer
Lack of pertinence
- trivialityUnimportant small matter
- inconsequentialLacking significance or impact
- negligibleToo small to consider
- unimportantLacking significance or weight
peripheral · nonessential · secondary · inessential · dispensable · expendable · trifling · incidental
Philosophy of existence's nature
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- dualismPhilosophy of opposed pairs
- idealismBelief in noble principles
- PlatonismPhilosophy emphasizing ideal Forms
monism · phenomenology · nominalism · essentialism · substance · Cartesian · mind-body · Berkeley
concept
Abstract mental construct
mental · intellectual · theoretical · ideational · conceptual · cognitive · intangible · incorporeality · disembodiment · formlessness
soul
Innermost animating essence
transcendent · sacred · otherworldly · heavenly · celestial · supernatural · metaphysical · numinous · mystical · holy
incorporeal
Not made of matter
- insubstantialLacking physical or material substance
- impalpableUnable to be touched
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
bodiless · formless · weightless · invisible · untouchable · nebulous · vaporous · airy · gossamer · phantasmal
irrelevance
Lack of pertinence
- trivialityUnimportant small matter
- inconsequentialLacking significance or impact
- negligibleToo small to consider
unimportant · peripheral · nonessential · secondary · inessential · dispensable · expendable · trifling · incidental · beside the point
metaphysics
Philosophy of existence's nature
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- dualismPhilosophy of opposed pairs
- idealismBelief in noble principles
Platonism · monism · phenomenology · nominalism · essentialism · substance · Cartesian · mind-body · Berkeley · noumena
- intangiblesabstraction, ideas, trust, concept, morale
- apophatic theologynegative theology, via negativa, unsaying, unknowing, negation
- idealismplatonic ideals, Platonic ideals, neoplatonism, Platonism, ideals
- medieval metaphysicssubstance, essence, being, existence, universals
- Neoplatonismemanation, nous, henosis, the Good, world soul
immaterialitymateriality
State of being consequential
corporeality · physicality · tangibility · substantiality · embodiment
immaterialitysignificance
Quality of mattering
importance · relevance · consequence · moment · weight
material, materialize, immaterial, materialism, materialist, materiality, nonmaterial