materialism : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: materialism	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for materialism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
materialism n a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters Synonym(s): materialism, philistinism (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality Synonym(s): materialism, physicalism
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Materialism \Mate"rialism\, n. [Cf. F. mat[82]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.