materialism

materialism is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. Buckminster.

[2] The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.

[3] Material substances in the aggregate; matter. [R. & Obs.] A. Chalmers.

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