MATERIALISM

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

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

3.
n.

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


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