Ma‐te″ri‐al‐ism (?), n. [Cf. F. matérialisme.]
1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.
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; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
3. Material substances in the aggregate; matter. A. Chalmers.