materialismnoun [ U ]
uk/məˈtɪə.ri.ə.lɪ.zəm/us/məˈtɪr.i.ə.lɪ.zəm/materialism noun [ U ] (MONEY)
C2 the belief that having money and possessions is the most important thing in life:
So have we become a self-centred society, preoccupied with materialism?
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Greedy
- avarice
- consumerism
- eye
- glutton
- gluttonous
- gluttony
- grasping
- greed
- greedy
- greedy guts
- growth-oriented
- Mammon
- materialist
- materialistic
- mercenary
- money-grubbing
- pig
- sb's eyes are bigger than their belly/stomach idiom
- wolfish
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materialism noun [ U ] (PHYSICAL)
specialized social sciences, religion the belief that only physical matter exists and the spiritual world does not
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Philosophy
- aesthete
- aesthetic
- anthropocentric
- Aristotle
- axiomatic
- globalist
- holism
- idealism
- individualism
- materialist
- postmodernism
- pseudo-science
- rationalism
- rationalist
- realism
- theorize
- theory
- utilitarianism
- yang
- yin
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