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Nonmaterial vs Nonmaternal - What's the difference?

nonmaterial | nonmaternal |

As adjectives the difference between nonmaterial and nonmaternal

is that nonmaterial is not material; apart from matter while nonmaternal is not maternal.

nonmaterial

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not material; apart from matter
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    • , passage=All wish to achieve nothing less than "the union of the material and the nonmaterial worlds," as Don Seiden describes it. }}

    Related terms

    *immaterial

    nonmaternal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not maternal.