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materialism

noun

1 materialism

A desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters.

synonym: philistinism.

Roget 316: materiality, materialness; corporeity, corporality; substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum; physical condition.    matter, body, substance, brute matter, ... show more

Roget 984: heterodoxy; error etc. 495; false doctrine, heresy, schism; schismaticism, schismaticalness; recusancy, backsliding, apostasy; atheism etc. ... show more

Roget 989: irreligion, indevotion; godlessness, ungodliness etc. adj.; laxity, quietism.    skepticism, doubt; unbelief, disbelief; incredulity, incredulousness ... show more

Dutch: materialisme
Polish: materializm

2 materialism

philosophy The philosophical theory that matter is the only reality.

synonym: physicalism.

Dutch: fysicalisme, materialisme
Polish: materializm


Moby thesaurus: Adam, Marxism, Philistinism, animalism, animality, atomism, beastliness, behaviorism, bestiality, brutality, brutishness, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, coarseness, commonsense realism, dialectical materialism, earthiness, earthliness, earthly-mindedness ... show more.

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