materialism medical dictionary

1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. "The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus." (Buckminster)

2. The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.

3. Material substances in the aggregate; matter.

[Cf. F. Materialisme]

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