Materialism vs Modernity - What's the difference?
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Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
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(philosophy) The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.
(obsolete, rare) Material substances in the aggregate; matter.
The quality of being modern or contemporary.
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Modern times.
(label) Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.
As nouns the difference between materialism and modernity
is that materialism is constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns while modernity is the quality of being modern or contemporary.materialism
English
(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 ----modernity
English
Noun
(wikipedia modernity) (modernities)citation, passage=There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity , […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.}}
- He was impressed by the architecture's modernity .
- The organization survived from ancient times to modernity .
