Noun
The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.
The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
Material substances in the aggregate; matter.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAs long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism. C. S. Lewis
Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem. John Searle
Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness. John Searle
We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where. Wole Soyinka
There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i. e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism. Vanna Bonta
The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i. e., he must be a dialectical materialist. Vladimir Lenin