materialisation

See also: Materialisation and matérialisation

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, 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:

     There are floating tables, floating musical instruments, and at some point you get full-form materialisation of ghosts, dressed in white.

Derived terms

• dematerialisation