Definition of Immaterialize

1. Verb. Render immaterial or incorporeal.

Exact synonyms: Immaterialise, Unsubstantialise, Unsubstantialize
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Disincarnate
Derivative terms: Unsubstantial

Definition of Immaterialize

1. v. t. To render immaterial or incorporeal.

Definition of Immaterialize

1. Verb. (transitive) To render immaterial or incorporeal. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Immaterialize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immaterialize

immartial
immask
immasked
immasking
immasks
immatchable
immaterial
immaterialise
immaterialism
immaterialisms
immaterialist
immaterialistic
immaterialists
immaterialities
immateriality
immaterialize (current term)
immaterialized
immaterializes
immaterializing
immaterially
immaterialness
immateriate
immature
immature cataract
immature granulocyte
immatured
immaturely
immatureness
immatures
immaturin

Literary usage of Immaterialize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"To explain the fact of sensitive perception, it was therefore supposed requisite to attenuate — to immaterialize the immediate object of perception, ..."

2. The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau (1897)
"It is hopeless to attempt to immaterialize Providence in order to save it. The special intervention of Providence must be material or not at all. ..."

3. The Psychology of Dress by Frank Alvah Parsons (1920)
"THE RENAISSANCE IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND figures had the one purpose of serving to immaterialize the body. Greek art on the other hand sought to express by the ..."

4. China: Or, Illustrations of the Symbola, Philosophy, Antiquities, Customs by Samuel Kidd (1841)
"... mode, or personality — exhibiting, in all their speculations, a love of the process of abstraction, by which they immaterialize the grossest substances. ..."

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