aineellista

Aineellista is the partitive singular form of the Finnish adjective aineellinen, which means material or tangible. It is not a standalone lexical item, but a grammatical form used to describe physical, physical-world, or material qualities when paired with a noun in the partitive case. In everyday and technical language, aineellista appears in phrases that contrast material aspects with intangible ones.

The term derives from aineellinen, which itself comes from aine, substance or matter. Aineellista is therefore typically used to refer to tangible, physical, or substantial aspects of something, such as material world, physical property, or tangible assets. It is common in fields that distinguish between material and immaterial dimensions, including economics, philosophy, and design discourse.

In practice, aineellista appears in constructions like aineellista maailmaa (the material world) or aineellista omaisuutta (tangible assets or material property). It is most often encountered in formal writing, academic texts, or analysis that emphasizes physical or concrete attributes rather than abstract or conceptual ones. Because it functions as a form of aineellinen rather than a fixed noun, its exact meaning depends on the noun it modifies and the grammatical context.

See also: aineellinen, aineettomat, tangible assets (in Finnish accounting: aineelliset hyödykkeet), materiality, immaterialism.