Meanings
plural materialisations
- UKcountablenonstandarduncountableNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialization.
There are floating tables, floating musical instruments, and at some point you get full-form materialisation of ghosts, dressed in white.
2013 December 23, Kira Cochrane, “Ghost stories: why the Victorians were so spookily good at them”, in The Guardian1 more example
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.
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
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe process of coming into being; becoming reality
nounan appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit)
nounsomething that comes into existence as a result
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with materialisation
Cite this entry
materialisation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/materialisation
“materialisation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/materialisation. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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