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materialism

English

(wikipedia materialism)

Noun

  • Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
  • * Buckminster
    • The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.
  • (philosophy) The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.
  • (obsolete, rare) Material substances in the aggregate; matter.

    • Synonyms

    * (philosophy) physicalism * (philosophy) philosophical materialism

    Antonyms

    * (philosophy) idealism

    Derived terms

    * philosophical materialism

    Related terms

    * materialistic

    See also

    * idealism * physicalism

    External links

    * * English words suffixed with -ism ----

    empiricismampflash

    Not English

    Empiricismampflash has no English definition. It may be misspelled.