materialistic

English

Etymology

material +‎ -istic

Adjective

materialistic (comparative more materialistic, superlative most materialistic)

1. Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
   • 2019, Fancy Feast, “On Being a Fetish”, in Jewish Currents‎^[1], number Summer 2019:

     Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals).

2. Of or concerning philosophical materialism.
   • (Can we date this quote by Charles Kingsley and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.

Related terms

• materialism

Translations

being overly concerned with possessions

• Catalan: materialista
• Czech: materialistický, hmotařský
• Estonian: materialistlik
• Finnish: materialistinen (fi)
• French: matérialiste (fr) m or f
• German: materialistisch (de)
• Greek: υλιστικός (el) (ylistikós)
• Ido: materialista
• Interlingua: materialistic
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• Irish: ábharaíoch
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Portuguese: materialista
• Romanian: materialist (ro) m
• Russian: мерканти́льный (ru) (merkantílʹnyj), материалисти́чный (ru) (materialistíčnyj)
• Spanish: materialista
• Volapük: materimik

of or concerning philosophical materialism

• Catalan: materialista
• Esperanto: materialisma
• Finnish: materialistinen (fi)
• German: materialistisch (de)
• Greek: ματεριαλιστικός (el) (materialistikós), υλιστικός (el) (ylistikós)
• Irish: ábharaíoch
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• Portuguese: materialista
• Romanian: materialist (ro)
• Russian: материалисти́ческий (ru) (materialistíčeskij)
• Spanish: materialista
• Volapük: stöfimik (vo)