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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ma•te•ri•al•ism /məˈtɪriəˌlɪzəm/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- too much emphasis on material objects, comforts, and considerations, as opposed to spiritual or intellectual values:the materialism of the 1970's and 1980's.
ma•te•ri•a•list, n. [countable], adj. ma•ter•i•a•list•ic, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ma•te•ri•al•ism (mə tēr′ē ə liz′əm),USA pronunciation n. - preoccupation with or emphasis on material objects, comforts, and considerations, with a disinterest in or rejection of spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
- Philosophythe philosophical theory that regards matter and its motions as constituting the universe, and all phenomena, including those of mind, as due to material agencies.
- Neo-Latin māteriālismus. See material, -ism
- 1740–50
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ma•te•ri•al•ist (mə tēr′ē ə list),USA pronunciation n. - a person who is markedly more concerned with material things than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
- Philosophyan adherent of philosophical materialism.
adj. - Philosophyconcerned with material things;
materialistic. - Philosophyof or pertaining to philosophical materialism or its adherents.
- Neo-Latin māteriālista. See material, -ist
- 1660–70
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