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materialism |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Materialism \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: materialism n 1: a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters [syn: {philistinism}] 2: the doctrine that matter is the only reality [syn: {physicalism}]
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