materialism 音标拼音: [mət'ɪriəl
, ɪzəm]
n . 唯物主义
唯物主义
materialism n 1 :
a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters [
synonym :
{
materialism }, {
philistinism }]
2 : (
philosophy )
the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality [
synonym : {
materialism }, {
physicalism }]
Materialism \
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n . [
Cf .
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rialisme .]
1 .
The doctrine of materialists ;
materialistic views and tenets ;
called also {
philosophical materialism }.
[
1913 Webster ]
The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus .
--
Buckminster .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
The tendency to give undue importance to material interests as contrasted with spiritual concerns ;
devotion to the material nature and its wants .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
Material substances in the aggregate ;
matter . [
R . &
Obs .]
--
A .
Chalmers .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
philosophical materialism }
The theory that matter and energy are the only objects existing within the universe ,
and that mental and spiritual phenomena are explainable as functions of the nervous system of people .
Same as {
materialism }[
1 ].
[
PJC ]
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "
materialism ":
Adam ,
Marxism ,
Philistinism ,
animalism ,
animality ,
atomism ,
beastliness ,
behaviorism ,
bestiality ,
brutality ,
brutishness ,
carnal nature ,
carnal -
mindedness ,
carnality ,
coarseness ,
commonsense realism ,
dialectical materialism ,
earthiness ,
earthliness ,
earthly -
mindedness ,
empiricism ,
epiphenomenalism ,
fallen nature ,
fallen state ,
flesh ,
fleshliness ,
grossness ,
historical materialism ,
hylomorphism ,
hylotheism ,
hylozoism ,
idealism ,
lapsed state ,
mechanism ,
mundaneness ,
natural realism ,
naturalism ,
new realism ,
nonspirituality ,
physicalism ,
physicism ,
positive philosophy ,
positivism ,
postlapsarian state ,
pragmaticism ,
pragmatism ,
realism ,
representative realism ,
secularism ,
substantialism ,
swinishness ,
temporality ,
the Old Adam ,
the beast ,
the flesh ,
the offending Adam ,
unspirituality ,
worldliness ,
worldly -
mindedness
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