MATTERING

A vaguely specified concern

Example: "Several matters to attend to"

• affair  12
• thing  9

• concern  11

• least  5

Some situation or event that is thought about

Example: "He kept drifting off the topic"

• issue  5
• subject  18
• topic  9

• cognitive content
• content  9
• mental object

• area  4
• blind spot
• remit  7
• res adjudicata
• • res judicata
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That which has mass and occupies space

Example: "Physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it"

• physical entity

• substance  13
• substance  13
• deposit  10
• sediment  11
• • ylem  9
  • dark matter
  • antimatter  12
  • glop  7
  • fluid  9
  • goo  4
  • goop  7
  • guck  11
  • gunk  9
  • muck  12
  • ooze  13
  • slime  7
  • sludge  8
  • system  11
  • residue  8
  • solid  6
  • solute  6
  • emanation  11
  • vegetable matter
  • gray body
  • grey body
  • point mass
  • pointlike mass
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A problem

Example: "Is anything the matter?"

(used with negation) having consequence

Example: "They were friends and it was no matter who won the games"

Written works (especially in books or magazines)

Example: "He always took some reading matter with him on the plane"

• piece of writing
• writing  11
• written material

• dictation  12
• text  11
• textual matter
• text  11
• • typescript  19
  • front matter
  • prelims  11
  • back matter
  • end matter
  • soft copy
  • hard copy
  • addendum  13
  • postscript  16
  • supplement  16
  • recitation  12
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