materialistic
adjective
uk
/məˌtɪə.ri.əˈlɪs.tɪk/ us
/məˌtɪr.i.əˈlɪs.tɪk/Meaning of materialistic in English
(Definition of materialistic from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of materialistic
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By aping the discourse of nineteenth-century materialistic science, it acted out its hidden tensions, exaggerating them into unresolvable paradoxes.
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But experimental physiology will teach us how much the notion of intuitive space is still reductively materialistic.
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Rather, he identifies them archetypically, as archaic man stands furthest from the mode of consciousness represented by modern, materialistic culture.
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These attitudes reflected reformers' anxieties concerning their own materialistic culture.
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It is beyond any materialistic concept of volume.
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This is no more than the legislative manifestation of the materialistic nationbuilding approach.
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Organicism can no longer be uncritically affirmed as the counter to dehumanizing mechanistic and materialistic trends.
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The analysis contrasts a materialistic interpretation of the influence of children on older people's wellbeing with the informants' more holistic evaluation of family relationships.
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In the last analysis, overpopulation receives most of the blame, but the current materialistic attitude of the developed world is given almost equal credit.
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They provide what some like to characterize as a kind of materialistic interpretation of history.
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As though aware that the new doctrine was considered materialistic, he qualified his approach.
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, his inclinations were more materialistic, if not in most of the conventional senses of academic "materialism".
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They outline a wholly new approach to the past which is at the same time historistic and materialistic.
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Of course, the problem of how to get at the operatic ' real' without being reductively materialistic remains.
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The scenario of cosmic evolution is a decidedly materialistic proposition.
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Translations of materialistic
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भौतिकवादी, आयुष्यात पैसा आणि उपभोग याच महत्वाच्या गोष्टी मानणारी व्यक्ती…
matérialiste…
డబ్బు మరియు ఆస్తులు కలిగి ఉండటం జీవితంలో అత్యంత ముఖ్యమైన విషయం అని నమ్మడం…
பணமும் உடைமையும் வாழ்வில் மிக முக்கியமானது என்று நம்புவது…
(सिद्धांत) भौतिकवादी…
বস্তুবাদী…
ભૌતિક બાબતોને લગતું, ભૌતિકલક્ષી…
materialistisk…
مادہ پرستانہ…
