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materialism
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)
- 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?
- 2010, Nuala O'Faolain, A More Complex Truth, "An Ugly Little War":
- (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.
- 1814, Joseph S. Buckminster, The Sermons by the Late Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster, Sermon I:
- (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)
- materialism
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
materiell +? -ism
Noun
materialism c
- materialism
Declension
Related terms
- materialist
- materialistisk
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realism
English
Etymology
real +? -ism
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i.?l?zm/ enPR: REE-ahl-izm
Noun
realism (countable and uncountable, plural realisms)
- A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.
- An artistic representation of reality as it is.
- (sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation.
- (philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them.
Antonyms
- (doctrine concerning universals): nominalism, antirealism
Hyponyms
- legal realism
- moral realism
Translations
See also
- idealism
References
- realism at OneLook Dictionary Search
- realism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "realism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 257.
- realism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Marlise, Raelism, Raëlism, almries, mailers, remails
Estonian
Noun
realism (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- realism
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Romanian
Etymology
From French réalisme.
Noun
realism n (uncountable)
- realism
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
reell +? -ism
Noun
realism c
- realism
Declension
Related terms
- realist
- realistisk
References
- Realism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)
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- what realism in philosophy
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