materialistic

materialism (məˈtɪərɪəˌlɪzəm)

—n
1.	interest in and desire for money, possessions, etc, rather than spiritual or ethical values
2.	philosophy idealism Compare dualism See also identity theory the monist doctrine that matter is the only reality and that the mind, the emotions, etc, are merely functions of it
3.	ethics the rejection of any religious or supernatural account of things

ma'terialist

—n, —*adj*

material'istic

—*adj*

material'istically

—*adv*

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materialistic

1845, from materialist.

Example sentences

You're not going to take any materialistic things with you.

The inevitable cost of industrialization and trying to pursue a materialistic capitalist dream.

The capital seen on television is a counterfeit of a modern western city, flashy and materialistic.

How this material world can dominate is well demonstrated in the actual materialistic world and science.

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"[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals."

-Muriel Beadle