Hypertext Webster Gateway: "materialism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Materialism \Ma*te"ri*al*ism\, n. [Cf. F. mat['e]rialisme.]
1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and
tenets.
The irregular fears of a future state had been
supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.
--Buckminster.
2. The tendency to give undue importance to material
interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
3. Material substances in the aggregate; matter. [R. & Obs.]
--A. Chalmers.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
materialism
n 1: a desire for wealth and material possessions with little
interest in ethical or spiritual matters [syn: {philistinism}]
2: the doctrine that matter is the only reality [syn: {physicalism}]
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