Materialism vs Materialistic - What's the difference?
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Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
* Buckminster
(philosophy) The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.
(obsolete, rare) Material substances in the aggregate; matter.
Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
Of or concerning philosophical materialism.
* Charles Kingsley
Materialistic is a related term of materialism.
As a noun materialism
is constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.As an adjective materialistic is
being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.materialism
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(wikipedia materialism)Noun
- The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.
Synonyms
* (philosophy) physicalism * (philosophy) philosophical materialismAntonyms
* (philosophy) idealismDerived terms
* philosophical materialismSee also
* idealism * physicalismExternal links
* * English words suffixed with -ism ----materialistic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.