Ma-tē'ri-al-ism, n.

n. [Fr. matérialisme, Sp. & It. materialismo.] 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. [Obs. and rare.] Chalmers.