Materialism vs Maternalism - 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.
the treatment of people in a motherly manner, especially by caring for them as a mother would care for her children.
As nouns the difference between materialism and maternalism
is that materialism is constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns while maternalism is the treatment of people in a motherly manner, especially by caring for them as a mother would care for her children.materialism
English
(wikipedia materialism)Noun
- The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.