materialism

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Etymology

material +‎ -ism

Noun

materialism (countable and uncountable; plural materialisms)

1. Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
   • Buckminster

     The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.

2. (philosophy) The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.
3. (obsolete, rare) Material substances in the aggregate; matter.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of A. Chalmers to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (philosophy): physicalism
• (philosophy): philosophical materialism

Antonyms

• (philosophy): idealism

Derived terms

• philosophical materialism

Related terms

• materialistic

Translations

concern over material possessions

• Catalan: materialisme (ca) m
• Czech: materialismus (cs) m
• Finnish: materialismi (fi)
• French: matérialisme (fr) m
• German: Materialismus (de) m
• Interlingua: materialismo

• Italian: materialismo (it)
• Portuguese: materialismo (pt) m
• Romanian: materialism (ro) n
• Russian: материализм (ru) (materialízm) m
• Spanish: materialismo (es)
• Volapük: materim

philosophical belief

• Arabic: مادية (ar) (maaddiyya) f
• Armenian: մատերիալիզմ (hy) (materializm)
• Catalan: materialisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 唯物主義 (cmn), 唯物主义 (cmn) (wéiwùzhǔyì), 唯物論 (cmn), 唯物论 (cmn) (wéiwùlùn)

• Esperanto: materialismo (eo), materiismo (eo)

• French: matérialisme (fr) m
• German: Materialismus (de) m
• Japanese: 唯物論 (ja) (yuibutsu-ron), 唯物主義 (ja) (ゆいぶつしゅぎ, yuibutsushugi)
• Portuguese: materialismo (pt) m
• Romanian: materialism (ro) n
• Russian: материализм (ru) (materialízm) m
• Volapük: stöfim (vo)

See also

• idealism
• physicalism

External links

• materialism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• materialism in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Swedish

Etymology

materiell +‎ -ism

Noun

materialism c

1. materialism

Declension

Declension of materialism

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	materialism	materialismen
genitive	materialisms	materialismens

Related terms

• materialist
• materialistisk