Materialism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MATERIALISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the belief that matter is the only extant substance
• the theory or belief that consciousness and will are wholly due to material agency.
• a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values
• the theory or belief that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications.
• The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.
• The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
• Material substances in the aggregate; matter.
• a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters
• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter; a doctrine that the only or the highest values or objectives lie in material well-being and in the furtherance of material progress; a doctrine that economic or social change is materially caused — compare historical materialism

Words related to MATERIALISM

corporealism18 hylicism18 materialisms16 materialist13 materialists14 somatism12

Words that contain MATERIALISM

materialisms16 immaterialism19 immaterialisms20 antimaterialism19 antimaterialisms20

How to use MATERIALISM in a sentence

• Poets and dreamers appeared not to be the men who could halt materialism.
• The denial of universal ideas is rationalism and materialism in philosophy, as it is Pelagianism and Arminianism in theology.
• Some of my readers may say this is pure materialism, or at least leads to materialism.
• Before the death of Marcus Aurelius, Europe was as weary of materialism as England before the death of Victoria.
• Two great rival solutions to this fundamental problem are Materialism and Idealism.
• In a sense, then, so far as it is opposed to materialism, idealism, according to Huxley, must be the philosophical position of a scientific man.
• This fact was specially testified to by Priestley, who acknowledged the primary truths of Materialism though averse to the legitimate consequences flowing from their recognition.
• They were a living protest against superstition and religious materialism.
• Yet even Mussolini found that a purely secular ideal was not enough, and that the spirit of religious fervour was necessary to defeat the spirit of materialism and destruction.
• The world for the most part is sunk in materialism, and the blessings of the Holy Spirit are ignored.
• And while I would rebuke rash speculation, I would also rebuke the cold materialism which unhesitatingly rejects an idea like this which I have now suggested.
• Even in form his efforts were apt to tend to heaviness and exaggeration, and the fascination which robust muscular delineation had for him, betrayed him into materialism.
• Alongside of this harsh materialism Cabanis held another principle.
• All men of this stamp have high brows retreating at the summit, the sign of a tendency to materialism.
• But in the year 1700 all the world appears to have been agreed, Tertullian notwithstanding, that materialism necessarily leads to very dreadful consequences.
• The dogma of materialism was specially cultivated at this time.
• The revolt against scientific materialism was made much easier by the disintegration of the mechanical theory itself.

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