| Pronunciation: | | mu'teereeu`lizum
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| Matching Terms: | | materialisation, materialise, materialist, materialistic, materialistically
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | philistinism, physicalism |
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| | See Also: | | desire, dialectical materialism, philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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