Thesaurus: materialist

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1. n. One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter.
2. n. One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it.
3. n. someone with great regard for material possessions
4. n. someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter
5. 1. One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter. 2. One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it. Berkeley.
6. Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the natureof materialism.But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than hisphysics. C. Kingsley.
7. j:9/n:91 n. someone with great regard for material possessions n. someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter