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How to pronounce materialist in English?

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Type Words
Type of nonbeliever
Derivation materialism
Type Words
Type of capitalist
Derivation materialism

Examples of materialist

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It is a country whose very name has become a synonym for a materialist paradise.
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And who, or what, is this materialist creator that gives these rights to all men?
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I objected to this, describing it as a caricature of materialist argumentation.
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O'Neill was always obsessed by the contrast between the poet and the materialist.
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The most arrogant materialist has nothing to learn about humility from such a man.
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Well, I agree that there are things that are mysterious in a materialist worldview.
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Darwin himself was deeply troubled by his materialist thoughts and what they meant.
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Alistair's parents are caricatured embodiments of lowbrow, materialist Asia.
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Nonetheless, I want to stick up for the power of materialist explanations.
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More examples
  • Someone with great regard for material possessions
  • Someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter
  • (materialistic) marked by materialism
  • (materialistic) bourgeois: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
  • (materialism) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters
  • (materialism) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality
  • (Materialism) Philosophical view that minds are purely physical.
  • (MATERIALISM) The claim that only material (physical) things exist. Often used in PHILOSOPHY OF MIND in contrast to the claim that mental objects and events cannot be reduced to physical objects and events.
  • (materialism) The metaphysical theory that views reality as only matter and its determinations; naturalism; physicalism.