MATERIALISM


Meaning of MATERIALISM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ mətɪəriəlɪzəm ]

1.

Materialism is the attitude of someone who attaches a lot of importance to money and wants to possess a lot of material things.

...the rising consumer materialism in society at large.

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• ma‧teri‧al‧ist

(materialists)

Leo is a materialist, living for life’s little luxuries.

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2.

Materialism is the belief that only physical matter exists, and that there is no spiritual world.

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