materialist

[ US /məˈtɪɹiəɫɪst/ ]
[ UK /mətˈi‍əɹɪəlˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone with great regard for material possessions
  2. someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter
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How To Use materialist In A Sentence

  • In an interesting July 30th post on Off-Grid.net, Alex Benady repots that "advanced industrial countries like the US and UK are moving toward a post-consumer era -- less materialist and more spiritual. The Greenwash Brigade: August 2008 Archives
  • Sensual and materialistic, they want all the power, comfort and control they can get out of life.
  • This is the heart of my main criticism of Dawkins and every other materialist who believes that we are the products of unguided evolutionary processes: you can't get here from there.
  • Not in so many words, she viewed my new handset as just another exotic creation of a transnational technocracy using technology to get us to spend our obsessive consumerist, materialist dollars.
  • Orphaned and blinded from childhood, he became an ascetic freethinker and materialist.
  • Materialists who hold that the mind is a complex physical system deny that it is possible for there to be an Evil Genius world, since, on their view, your mind could not possibly exist in a matterless world. Dr. Nishad
  • It seems to be a connector or a medium between the materialistic world and the spiritual world.
  • Materialistic types can turn the page because there are no riches awaiting the winner.
  • Those with a materialist mindset seem quite comfortable in loosening up their evidential thresholds whenever it suits them. Are Stereochemical Explanations Causally Sufficient?
  • The historical school mistaking what men have done for what men should do and, while often missing the full induction of the past, scornfully rejecting as empty apriorism deductive reasoning from the nature of man, presents a materialistic, evolutionary, and positivistic view of human society, which in no way appeals to sane reason. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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