About The Word Materialism
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Materialism
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What's The Definition Of Materialism?
[n] the doctrine that matter is the only reality
[n] a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters Synonyms | Synonyms for Materialism: philistinism | physicalism Related Terms | Find terms related to Materialism: Adam | animalism | animality | atomism | beastliness | behaviorism | bestiality | brutality | brutishness | carnal nature | carnality | carnal-mindedness | coarseness | commonsense realism | dialectical materialism | earthiness | earthliness | earthly-mindedness | empiricism | epiphenomenalism | fallen nature | fallen state | flesh | fleshliness | grossness | historical materialism | hylomorphism | hylotheism | hylozoism | idealism | lapsed state | Marxism | mechanism | mundaneness | natural realism | naturalism | new realism | nonspirituality | Philistinism | physicalism | physicism | positive philosophy | positivism | postlapsarian state | pragmaticism | pragmatism | realism | representative realism | secularism | substantialism | swinishness | temporality | the beast | the flesh | the offending Adam | the Old Adam | unspirituality | worldliness | worldly-mindedness See Also | desire | dialectical materialism | philosophical doctrine | philosophical theory Materialism In Webster's Dictionary \Ma*te"ri*al*ism\, n. [Cf. F. mat['e]rialisme.]
1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and
tenets.
The irregular fears of a future state had been
supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.
--Buckminster.
2. The tendency to give undue importance to material
interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
3. Material substances in the aggregate; matter. [R. & Obs.]
--A. Chalmers.
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