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Materialism

Materialism Meaning & Definition
Materialism Definition And Meaning

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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