materiality.

1. Importance or relevance sufficient to affect the matter being considered.

2. The physical or material character of something.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• materiality of an omission
• assess materiality

On the page

The materiality of the omission depended on whether it altered the assessment.

The reviewer assessed materiality rather than counting every minor discrepancy equally.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: moderately common.