Dictionary

materialisation en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English material English -ise Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -isation English materialisation From material + -isation.

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, countable, nonstandard, uncountable) Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialization.
   alt of materialization
   • There are floating tables, floating musical instruments, and at some point you get full-form materialisation of ghosts, dressed in white. 2013 December 23, Kira Cochrane, “Ghost stories: why the Victorians were so spookily good at them”, in The Guardian:
   • 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. 2000 April 13, Marina Warner, “A New Twist in the Long Tradition of the Grotesque”, in London Review of Books, volume 22, number 08, →ISSN:

Forms

Deriveds

dematerialisation