materialisation

materialisation

English

Etymology

    From material + -isation.

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

    Noun

    materialisation (countable and uncountable, plural materialisations)

    1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialization.
      • 2000 April 13, Marina Warner, “A New Twist in the Long Tradition of the Grotesque”, in London Review of Books[1], volume 22, number 08, →ISSN:
        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.
      • 2013 December 23, Kira Cochrane, “Ghost stories: why the Victorians were so spookily good at them”, in The Guardian[2]:
        There are floating tables, floating musical instruments, and at some point you get full-form materialisation of ghosts, dressed in white.

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