different between materialism vs materialistic

English

Etymology

From French matérialisme; surface etymology is material +? -ism.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m??t??i?l?z?m/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??t???i?l?z?m/
• Hyphenation: ma?te?ri?al?ism

Noun

materialism (countable and uncountable, plural materialisms)

1. Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
   • 2010, Nuala O'Faolain, A More Complex Truth, "An Ugly Little War":

     We accept that a third of the population live on the poverty line. We accept that only a handful of the most exceptional of the children of the poor will make it through to a third-level education. We accept massive examples of greed and dishonesty in public life. We except the values of materialism. What do we expect then—to be left un-harassed, we who have all the privileges?

2. (philosophy) The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.
   • 1814, Joseph S. Buckminster, The Sermons by the Late Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster, Sermon I:

     The result of the labours of philosophy appeared to be a total scepticism on the most important subjects of hu man duty and expectation. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus; and this system—if system it may be called, which left them without a God, a providence, a morality, or a retribution—was the fashionable philosophy of the more cultivated classes.

   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture I:

     Medical materialism seems indeed a good appellation for the too simple-minded system of thought which we are considering. ... All such mental over-tensions, it says, are, when you come to the bottom of the matter, mere affairs of diathesis (auto-intoxications most probably), due to the perverted action of various glands which physiology will yet discover.
3. (obsolete, rare) Material substances in the aggregate; matter.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of A. Chalmers to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (philosophy): physicalism
• (philosophy): philosophical materialism

Antonyms

• (philosophy): idealism

Derived terms

• new materialism
• philosophical materialism
• scientific materialism
• speculative materialism
• transcendental materialism

Related terms

• materialistic
• materialist

Translations

See also

• idealism
• physicalism

Further reading

• materialism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• materialism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "materialism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 197.

Romanian

Etymology

From French matérialisme

Noun

materialism n (uncountable)

1. materialism

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

materiell +? -ism

Noun

materialism c

1. materialism

Declension

Related terms

• materialist
• materialistisk

English

Etymology

material +? -istic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??t???.i.??l?s.t?k/

Adjective

materialistic (comparative more materialistic, superlative most materialistic)

1. Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
2. Of or concerning philosophical materialism.
   • 1852, Charles Kingsley, Phaeton, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers

     But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.

Related terms

• materialism

Translations