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Materialist

//məˈtiːɹɪəlɪst// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having features typical of philosophical materialism.
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.

    "Ironically, today's generation has become the little materialists and "fame whores" (New York Magazine's term) their boomer parents so reviled."

  2. 2
    someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter wordnet
  3. 3
    A follower or proponent of philosophical materialism.

    "It is weary work enough to argue with an ordinary materialist, who hurls statistics and whole strata of geological facts at your head, whilst you can only buffet him with deductions and instincts and the snowflakes of faith, that are, alas! so apt to melt in the hot embers of our troubles."

  4. 4
    someone with great regard for material possessions wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From material + -ist.

Etymology 2

From material + -ist.

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