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nonmaterial

nonmaterial adjective: not material; apart from matter.

Adjective

nonmaterial (not comparable)

  1. Not material; apart from matter
    • All wish to achieve nothing less than "the union of the material and the nonmaterial worlds," as Don Seiden describes it.1988 May 6, Tom Valeo, “Conference Calls: what goes on in an artist's brain?”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of nonmaterial

alternative formnon-material

Origin of nonmaterial

From non- + material.

Words formed from nonmaterial

Questions about nonmaterial

What does nonmaterial mean?
Nonmaterial means not material; apart from matter.
What part of speech is nonmaterial?
Nonmaterial is an adjective.

Words near nonmaterial in the dictionary

  1. nonmatched
  2. nonmatches
  3. nonmatching
  4. nonmate
  5. nonmated
  6. nonmaterial
  7. nonmaterial culture
  8. nonmaterialism
  9. nonmaterialist
  10. nonmaterialistic
  11. nonmaterialists

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