materialness

This art had no predecessors and offers us, as it were, the materialness of the Arabs' ideal.

That is, the more we should become able to appreciate their form of materialness.

Importance -- N. importance, consequence, moment, prominence, consideration, mark, materialness. import, significance, concern; emphasis, interest. greatness &c.

While he might have eaten his bread "in sorrow" carelessly and mechanically, if it had been prepared for him, the occupation of cooking his own food brought the vulgarity and materialness of existence so near to his morbid sensitiveness that he could not eat the meal he had himself prepared.