1. A desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters
   - philistinism 
2. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality
   - physicalism

Derived forms: materialisms

See also: materialist, materialistic

Type of: desire, philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory

Encyclopedia: Materialism

• self-renewal
• self-renewing
• self-renunciation
• self-report inventory
• self-report personality inventory
• self-reproach
• self-reproof
• self-respect
• self-respectful
• self-respecting
• self-restraining
• self-restraint
• self-righteous
• self-righteously
• self-righteousness
• self-rising flour
• self-rule
• self-sacrifice
• self-sacrificing
• self-satisfaction
• self-satisfied
• self-sealing
• self-seeded
• self-seeker
• self-seeking