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materialistic
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- Its very situation—withdrawn a little behind the facile splendours of St. Pancras—implied a comment on the materialism of life.†
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- It was his hope that the clouds of materialism obscuring the Fatherland would part in time, and the mild intellectual light re-emerge.†
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- Death, Life, and Materialism were fine words, but would Mr. Wilcox take him on as a clerk?†
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Definitions:
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(materialistic) overly concerned with wealth and possessions at the expense of other interests
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, in philosophy, materialistic can refer to the belief that everything, including our thoughts, are caused by physical effects over which we have no control.