ma·te·ri·al·ism /məˈtɪriəˌlɪzəm/
唯物主義
Ma·te·ri·al·ism n.
1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets; called also philosophical materialism.
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 as contrasted with spiritual concerns; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
3. Material substances in the aggregate; matter. [R. & Obs.]
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materialism
n 1: a desire for wealth and material possessions with little
interest in ethical or spiritual matters [syn: philistinism]
2: (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the
only reality [syn: physicalism]