All 6 Uses
materialistic
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The Call of the Canyon
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- Carley had been told by a Columbia professor that she was a type of the present age—a modern young woman of materialistic mind.†
Chpt 6 *materialistic = too concerned with wealth and possessions
- I suppose that's my pessimism or materialism.†
Chpt 6
- Seldom had she permitted herself to think about it, let alone to probe it with hard materialistic queries.†
Chpt 9materialistic = too concerned with wealth and possessions
- On the one side greed, selfishness, materialism: on the other generosity, sacrifice, and idealism.†
Chpt 9
- Jazz—the harmonious expression of our musicless, mindless, soulless materialism!†
Chpt 10
- You leave the future of women to chance, to life, to materialism, not to their own conscious efforts.†
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.