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 ma·te·ri·al·ism /məˈtɪriəˌlɪzəm/
 唯物主義

 Ma·te·ri·al·ism n.
 1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets; called also philosophical materialism.
    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 as contrasted with spiritual concerns; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
 3. Material substances in the aggregate; matter. [R. & Obs.]
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 materialism
      n 1: a desire for wealth and material possessions with little
           interest in ethical or spiritual matters [syn: philistinism]
      2: (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the
         only reality [syn: physicalism]