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Word | Materialism |
Urdu Meaning | مادہ پرستی, ماديت, ماده پرستي |
a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters / The doctrine of materialists / preoccupation with physical comforts and things / a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. / a way of thinking that gives too much importance to material possessions rather than to spiritual or intellectual things / philosophy : the belief that only material things exist, | |
Usage | ⇒ He is the person who believes in materialism ⇒ By its nature, materialism is opposed to idealism, for where the materialist emphasizes the needs of the body the idealist emphasizes the needs of the soul. ⇒ the materialism of modern society ⇒ Perceptions now abound of the West being held in the grip of materialism and spiritual values being sidelined. |
Synonyms | physicalism, philistinism, physicism, atheism, behaviorism, positivism, deism, dialectical materialism, empiricism, hylotheism, mechanism, pragmatism, acquisitiveness, animalism, animality, atomism, beastliness, bestiality, brutality, brutishness, |
Antonyms | charity, aid, assistance, beneficence, benevolence, bigheartedness, bountifulness, bounty, breadth, clemency, courtesy, donations, forgiveness, generosity, gifts, grant, indulgence, kindness, liberality, munificence, |
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