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Materialist vs Materialise - What's the difference?

materialist | materialise |

As a noun materialist

is someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.

As a verb materialise is

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materialist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.
  • * 2007 March 2, Christopher Orlet, “ The Look-at-Me Generation”, in The American Spectator :
    • Ironically, today's generation has become the little materialists and "fame whores" New York Magazine &
  • 39;s term) their boomer parents so reviled.
  • A follower or proponent of philosophical materialism.

    • materialise

    English

    Verb

    (materialis)

    • References

    * L Picknett: Encyclopaedia of the Paranormal (1990) "The dead materialised in full form ..." * Alistair McLean: (1969) " ... he materialised a taxi out of nowhere."