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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Ma·te·ri·al·ist n.
1. One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter. A believer in philosophical materialism.
2. One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it.
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