Materialistic vs Hedonism - What's the difference?
materialistic | hedonism |
Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
Of or concerning philosophical materialism.
* Charles Kingsley
(ethics) The belief that pleasure or happiness is the highest good in life. Some hedonists, such as the Epicureans, have insisted that pleasure of the entire mind, not just pleasure of the senses, is the highest good.
A general devotion to the pursuit of pleasure.
As an adjective materialistic
is being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.As a noun hedonism is
(ethics) the belief that pleasure or happiness is the highest good in life some hedonists, such as the epicureans, have insisted that pleasure of the entire mind, not just pleasure of the senses, is the highest good.materialistic
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(en adjective)- But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.
