(noun.) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality.
(noun.) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters.
海因里希录入
双语例句
Is THAT spiritual, her bullying, her conceit, her sordid materialism? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
A new philosophical basis is becoming increasingly necessary to socialism--one that may not be truer than the old materialism but that shall simply be more useful. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
This fixation has brought down upon the socialists a torrent of abuse in which atheism and materialism are prevailing epithets. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Without war the world would stagnate and lose itself in materialism. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.