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immaterial

Pronunciation: /ˌɪ.məˈtɪə.ɹɪ.əl/

The English word “immaterial” has 7 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Having no matter or substance; incorporeal.
  2. Of the nature of the soul or spirit; spiritual.
  3. Of no importance; inconsequential, insignificant, unimportant.
  4. Having or seeming to have very little substance; insubstantial, slight.
  5. Especially of evidence; chiefly followed by to: not associated in any way that is important or useful to the context being discussed; irrelevant.

noun

  1. A being or entity having no matter or substance.
  2. A thing which is abstract or intangible; (uncountable) chiefly preceded by the: things which are abstract or intangible considered collectively.

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English immaterial, inmateriall (“incorporeal; spiritual”), from Middle French immateriel (“not material”) (modern French immatériel), and from its etymon Medieval Latin immāteriālis (“not material”), from Latin im- (a variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’)) + māteriālis (“made of matter, material”) (from māteria (“matter, substance, material”) (from…

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