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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A philosophical position holding that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; that is, that there are no kinds of things other than physical things, which all are of logically procedural nature, based on fundamental laws at their deepest level of causality. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality wordnet

Synonyms

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materialismmaterialismanimalismatomismbehaviorismdialectical materialism

Antonyms

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idealism

Etymology

From physical + -ism.

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