materialism Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

Cf. F. matérialisme.

The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.
The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. Buckminster.
The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
Material substances in the aggregate; matter. R. & Obs. A. Chalmers.