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Materiality vs Textuality - What's the difference?

materiality | textuality |

As nouns the difference between materiality and textuality

is that materiality is the quality of being material; having a physical existence while textuality is the attributes that distinguish a text as an object of study.

materiality

English

Noun

(materialities)
  • The quality of being material; having a physical existence.
  • (legal) The quality of being of consequence to a legal decision.

    • Antonyms

    *immateriality *ethereality

    textuality

    English

    (wikipedia textuality)

    Noun

  • (literature, linguistics) The attributes that distinguish a text as an object of study.

    • Derived terms

    * bitextuality * cybertextuality * hypertextuality * metatextuality