Both Uses
materialistic
in
A Passage to India
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- Is anything wrong with you this evening that you grow so materialistic?†
Chpt 27 *materialistic = too concerned with wealth and possessions
- Your unfairness is worse than my materialism.†
Chpt 27
Definitions:
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(1)
(materialistic) overly concerned with wealth and possessions at the expense of other interests
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(2)
(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.