Materialistic vs Mercenary - What's the difference?
materialistic | mercenary |
Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
Of or concerning philosophical materialism.
* Charles Kingsley
Motivated by private gain.
* Dryden
A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose prime or sole motivation is private gain.
As adjectives the difference between materialistic and mercenary
is that materialistic is being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth while mercenary is motivated by private gain.As a noun mercenary is
a person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose prime or sole motivation is private gain.materialistic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.
mercenary
English
(wikipedia mercenary)Adjective
(en adjective)- For God forbid I should my papers blot / With mercenary lines, with servile pen.