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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relevance |
| Synonyms: | accordance, applicability, application, appositeness, aptness, bearing, concernment, congruence, correspondence, germaneness, importance, matter, pertinence, pertinency, relatedness, relativity, relevancy, significance, substance |
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| Concept: | Materiality. |
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-nouns
materiality, materialness; corporeity, corporality; substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum; physical condition., matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum; frame., object, article, thing, something; still life; stocks and stones, sticks and stones; materials., [Science of matter] physics; somatology, somatics; natural philosophy, experimental philosophy; physicism; physical science, philosophie positive, materialism; materialist; physicist; somatism, somatist.
-adjectives
material, bodily; corporeal, corporal; physical; somatic, somatoscopic; sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial., objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.
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| Antonyms: | immateriality |
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| Main Entry: | actuality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that truly exists, is real |
| Synonyms: | achievement, actualization, attainment, brass tacks, fact, materiality, materialization, real world, reality, straight stuff, substance, substantiality, truth, what it is |
| Main Entry: | importance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | significance, weight |
| Synonyms: | accent, attention, bearing, caliber, concern, concernment, consequence, denotation, distinction, drift*, effect, emphasis, force, gist*, gravity, import, influence, interest, materiality, moment, momentousness, notability, paramountcy, point, precedence, preponderance, preponderancy, priority, purport, relevance, sense, seriousness, signification, standing, stress, substance, tenor, usefulness, value, weightiness |
| Antonyms: | insignificance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts of existence |
| Synonyms: | absoluteness, actuality, authenticity, being, bottom line, brass tacks, certainty, concreteness, corporeality, deed, entity, existence, genuineness, how things are, like it is, materiality, matter, name of the game, nuts and bolts, object, palpability, perceptibility, phenomenon, presence, real world, realism, realness, sensibility, solidity, substance, substantiality, substantive, tangibility, truth, validity, verisimilitude, verity, way of it, what's what |
| Antonyms: | belief, fantasy, hypothesis, imagination, theory |
| Main Entry: | thing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something felt, seen, perceived |
| Synonyms: | affair, anything, apparatus, article, being, body, business, circumstance, commodity, concept, concern, configuration, contrivance, corporeality, creature, device, element, entity, everything, existence, existent, fact, figure, form, gadget, goods, implement, individual, information, instrument, item, machine, material, materiality, matter, means, mechanism, object, part, person, phenomenon, piece, point, portion, shape, situation, stuff, subject, substance, tool, word |
| Main Entry: | applicability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relevance |
| Synonyms: | application, appositeness, appropriateness, bearing, materiality, pertinence, pertinency, relevancy, suitability, suitableness |
| Main Entry: | appositeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relevance |
| Synonyms: | applicability, application, appropriateness, bearing, materiality, pertinence, pertinency, relevancy, suitability, suitableness |
| Main Entry: | germaneness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relevance |
| Synonyms: | applicability, application, appositeness, aptness, bearing, concernment, fitness, materiality, pertinence, pertinency, propriety, relevancy, suitability, suitableness, usefulness |
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