Antonym: idealism. Similar words: materialistic, material, building materials, industrial capitalism, socialism, colonialism, existentialism, industrialisation. Meaning: [mə'tɪərɪəlɪzm] 
n. 1. a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters 2. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality.
n. 1. a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters 2. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality. 
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31. None the less, three views consistent with historical materialism can be found in diverse works by Marx and Engels.
32. Implicit in this historical materialism is a view of man and an explanation of the human condition.
33. The root of materialism is probably a firm commitment to empirical scientific method as the only reliable way to discover truth.
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34. For by far the greater part, the aesthetic is bracketed in the name of a robust historical materialism.
35. The First World's miserly materialism is enough to make any honest seeker yearn for a new alternative or age.
36. As such, it competes with other metaphysical theories like materialism.
37. Materialism has until recently been virtually unknown in Confucian societies.
38. Graham also encouraged people to turn away from materialism and instead focus on what he said really matters: the spiritual.
39. We have replaced our spiritual values and wisdom with materialism.
40. In the West, the value of materialism motivates individuals to invest time and energy producing and acquiring material possessions.
41. For example, it can be argued that the value of materialism integrates many parts of the social structure in Western industrial society.
42. But a tame aesthetic is no friend of historical materialism.
43. Historical materialism can also be used to explain the history of penal thought sketched in the previous chapter.
44. In these lovely days, still unspoilt by materialism and television, there was always a singer.
45. An unpredictable aesthetic, it could be said, is a requirement of an historical materialism adequate to its political task.
46. Materialism brings in its wake as many problems as it does blessings.
47. This criticism of materialism is seen in all his teaching.
48. It is impossible to conceive of dialectical materialism without atheism, and it is this which underlies Marxism as an ideology.
49. This is the West, the home of blatant materialism.
50. They talk immaterialism while we talk materialism.
51. They preach idealism whereas we advocate materialism.
52. Materialism and mentalism - the philosophies of 'nothing but.
53. Idealism is opposite to materialism.
54. Society's march toward ever-increasing materialism was continuing.
55. To combat subjectivism we must propagate materialism and dialectics.
56. It taught only materialism, the gospel of mammon.
57. He continually criticized England for its crass materialism.
58. Hence, it is a sub-branch of emergent materialism.
59. Materialism and idealism are different forms of attributive monism.
60. Crass materialism causes people to forget spiritual values.
More similar words: materialistic, material, building materials, industrial capitalism, socialism, colonialism, existentialism, industrialisation, extraterrestrial, aerial, realism, imperial, fatalism, vandalism, mutualism, journalism, pluralism, capitalism, federalism, specialist, specialise, nationalism, pastoralism, commensalism, criteria, hysteria, bacteria, totalitarianism, mater, transcendentalism.