different between materialism vs theism

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 1

Coined, theo- +? -ism. ultimately from Ancient Greek ???? (theós, “god”). Attested in English from 1678, theist being attested 16 years earlier in 1662. Cognate French théisme,, as in Diderot Principes de la philosophie morale (1745), which was probably borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?z?m/

Noun

theism (countable and uncountable, plural theisms)

1. Belief in the existence of at least one deity.
2. (strictly) Belief in the existence of a personal creator god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses present and active in the governance and organization of the world and the universe. The God may be known by or through revelation.
   • 1999, Jeaneane D. Fowler, Humanism: Beliefs & Practices, page 66

     The term stands in contradistinction to theism which, in its widest sense, means belief in a personal god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses.

Hyponyms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• agnosticism
• deism
• divine
• pandeism

References

Etymology 2

Borrowing from New Latin thea (“tea”, noun) + English -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti?z?m/

Noun

theism (uncountable) (pathology)

2. A morbid condition resulting from excessive consumption of tea.

Synonyms

• theaism
• theinism

Coordinate terms

• caffeinism

References

Anagrams

• Themis, Thiems, hemist, mithes