Chapter XIII: Section I: Matter in General

316. Materiality — N. materiality, materialness; corporeity†, corporality†; substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum; physical condition. matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma [Biol.], material, substratum, hyle†, corpus, pabulum; frame. object, article, thing, something; still life; stocks and stones; materials &c 635. [Science of matter] physics; somatology†, somatics; natural philosophy, experimental philosophy; physicism†; physical science, philosophie positive [Fr.], materialism; materialist; physicist; somatism†, somatist†. Adj. material, bodily; corporeal, corporal; physical; somatic, somatoscopic†; sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial. objective, impersonal, nonsubjective†, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.

317. Immateriality — N. immateriality, immaterialness; incorporeity†, spirituality; inextension†; astral plane. personality; I, myself, me; ego, spirit &c (soul) 450; astral body; immaterialism†; spiritualism, spiritualist. V. disembody, spiritualize. Adj. immaterial, immateriate†; incorporeal, incorporal†; incorporate, unfleshly†; supersensible†; asomatous†, unextended†; unembodied†, disembodied; extramundane, unearthly; pneumatoscopic†; spiritual &c (psychical) 450 [Obs.]. personal, subjective, nonobjective.

318. World — N. world, creation, nature, universe; earth, globe, wide world; cosmos; kosmos†; terraqueous globe†, sphere; macrocosm, megacosm†; music of the spheres. heavens, sky, welkin†, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions†; varuna; vault of heaven, canopy of heaven; celestial spaces. heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids; nebulae; galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea [Lat.], ame no kawa [Jap.]. sun, orb of day, Apollo†, Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen; aerolite†, meteor; planetary ring; falling star, shooting star; meteorite, uranolite†. constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades. colures†, equator, ecliptic, orbit. [Science of heavenly bodies] astronomy; uranography, uranology†; cosmology, cosmography†, cosmogony; eidouranion†, orrery; geodesy &c (measurement) 466; star gazing, star gazer†; astronomer; observatory; planetarium. Adj. cosmic, cosmical†; mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious†, terraqueous†, terrene, terreous†, telluric, earthly, geotic†, under the sun; sublunary†, subastral†. solar, heliacal†; lunar; celestial, heavenly, sphery†; starry, stellar; sidereal, sideral†; astral; nebular; uranic. Adv. in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun. Phr. die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht [G.]; earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God [Hageman]; green calm below, blue quietness above [Whittier]; hanging in a golden chain this pendant World [Paradise Lost]; nothing in nature is unbeautiful [Tennyson]; silently as a dream the fabric rose [Cowper]; some touch of nature's genial glow [Scott]; this majestical roof fretted with golden fire [Hamlet]; through knowledge we behold the World's creation [Spenser].

319. Gravity — N. gravity, gravitation; weight; heaviness &c adj.; specific gravity; pondorosity†, pressure, load; burden, burthen†; ballast, counterpoise; lump of, mass of, weight of. lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion. weighing, ponderation†, trutination†; weights; avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma†, ounce, pound, lb, arroba†, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod†. [metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram; nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram. [Weighing Instrument] balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge†; spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance; postal scale, baby scale. [Science of gravity] statics. V. be heavy &c adj.; gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load. [Measure the weight of] weigh, poise. Adj. weighty; weighing &c v.; heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable; lumpish†, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive. incumbent, superincumbent†.

320. Levity — N. levity; lightness &c adj.; imponderability, buoyancy, volatility. feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air. leaven, ferment, barm†, yeast. lighter-than-air balloon, helium balloon, hydrogen balloon, hot air balloon. convection, thermal draft, thermal. V. be light &c adj.; float, rise, swim, be buoyed up. render light &c adj.; lighten, leaven. Adj. light, subtile, airy; imponderous†, imponderable; astatic†, weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery; suberose†, suberous†; uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating &c v.; portable. light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air; lighter than air; rise like a balloon, float like a balloon