materialisation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.34 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
7
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialization.
British usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "There are floating tables, floating musical instruments, and at some point you get full-form materialisation of ghosts, dressed in white."
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.
Usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Uncountable