Materialism

Noun

 * 1) Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
 * 2)  The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.

Synonyms

 * physicalism
 * philosophical materialism

Antonyms

 * idealism

Derived terms

 * philosophical materialism
 * philosophical materialism

Related terms

 * materialistic

Adjectives for Materialism
ruthless; dialectical; advanced; practical; lifeless; brutal; unreligious; coarse; scientific; crass.

Verbs for Materialism
absorb by—; accentuate—; cloak—; degen erate into—; disparage—; infest with—; lapse into—; shrink from—; sink into—; tend to—; transmute—; —blasphemes; — desecrates; —doubts; —hardens; —perverts; —profanes; —questions; —scorns; — wanes.

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, empiricism, epiphenomenalism, fallen nature, fallen state, flesh, fleshliness, grossness, historical materialism, hylomorphism, hylotheism, hylozoism, idealism, lapsed state, mechanism, mundaneness, natural realism, naturalism, new realism, nonspirituality, physicalism, physicism, positive philosophy, positivism, postlapsarian state, pragmaticism, pragmatism, realism, representative realism, secularism, substantialism, swinishness, temporality, the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, unspirituality, worldliness, worldly-mindedness

Translations

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 * Volapük: materim


 * Arabic: مادية
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 * Catalan: materialisme
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 * Esperanto: materialismo
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 * Japanese: 唯物論
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Noun

 * 1) materialism

Related terms

 * materialist
 * materialistisk