Found 2 items, similar to materialist.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: materialist
materialist
n 1: someone with great regard for worldly possessions
2: someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter
[syn:
irreligionist]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Materialist
Materialist
\Ma*te"ri*al*ist\ (m[.a]*t[=e]"r[i^]*al*[i^]st), n.
[Cf. F. mat['e]rialiste.]
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. A
believer in
philosophical materialism.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
2. One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished
from the idealist, who denies it. --Berkeley.
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