Materialisation
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialization. UK, alt-of, countable, nonstandard, uncountable
"The sandpit, mud, lollipop sticks, goo, plasticine, oozing clay and, later, petri dishes and test tubes: playing with such stuff, Hall argues, has clearly influenced the materialisations of contemporary art, so much of it three-dimensional, inherently transient and labile, and playful. Homo ludens has supplanted homo faber."
- 2 something that comes into existence as a result wordnet
- 3 an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) wordnet
- 4 the process of coming into being; becoming reality wordnet
Example
More examples"The sandpit, mud, lollipop sticks, goo, plasticine, oozing clay and, later, petri dishes and test tubes: playing with such stuff, Hall argues, has clearly influenced the materialisations of contemporary art, so much of it three-dimensional, inherently transient and labile, and playful. Homo ludens has supplanted homo faber."
Etymology
From material + -isation.
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