Both Uses
materialistic
in
Fathers and Sons
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- In former days there were some here and there; they had—well, Schiller, to be sure, Goethe ...my brother—he takes a particularly favourable view of them....But now they have all turned chemists and materialists ...' 'A good chemist is twenty times as useful as any poet,' broke in Bazarov.†
Chpt 6 *
- The materialism you advocate has been more than once in vogue already, and has always proved insufficient ...' 'A foreign word again!' broke in Bazarov.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(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.