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immaterialism|ɪməˈtɪərɪəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. prec. + -ism, after materialism.]
1. The doctrine that matter does not exist in itself as a substance or cause, but that all things have existence only as the ideas or perceptions of a mind.
1713Berkeley Hylas & Phil. iii. Wks. 1871 I. 352 You tell me indeed of a repugnancy between the Mosaic history and Immaterialism. 1777J. Berington (title) Immaterialism Delineated, or a view of the First Principles of Things. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 237 Berkeley maintains, that objects of sense are only ideas, they having no existence in themselves and apart from perception. This is immaterialism.
2. nonce-use. = immateriality 1 b.
1824Byron Juan xvi. cxiv, For immaterialism's a serious matter; So that even those whose faith is the most great In souls immortal, shun them tête-à-tête. |