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materialist

[ muh-teer-ee-uh-list ]

noun

  1. a person who is markedly more concerned with material things than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
  2. an adherent of philosophical materialism.


adjective

  1. concerned with material things; materialistic.
  2. of or relating to philosophical materialism or its adherents.
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Other Words From

  • ma·teri·al·istic adjective
  • anti·ma·teri·al·ist noun adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of materialist1

From the New Latin word māteriālista, dating back to 1660–70. See material, -ist
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Example Sentences

Hayek, the more famous of the two, described himself as a pragmatist and empiricist, but, as is common in the transmission of ideas, his followers dogmatized his theories to the point where they became a materialist religion, a mirror image of Marxist-Leninism.

From Salon

The message from the left is more materialist: families don’t have enough support; young people are too broke; the direness of our collective climate future has made millennials hesitant to bring new life into a dying world; if potential parents had the scaffolding of paid leave, affordable child care, affordable housing, and great health care, they’d be making different choices.

From Slate

Rastafari reject materialist values and often practice a strict oneness with nature.

In 1967, Mr. Celant noticed that some members of the postwar generation of young artists were using humor, provocation and unconventional materials to rebel against both older artistic orthodoxies and materialist pop culture.

Materialist schools of thought dating back to the fifth and sixth centuries include declarations that human beings are nothing more than their physical bodies, and denied the existence of god, the soul and life after death.

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