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| ma·te·ri·al·ism [ mə tree ə lìzzəm ] |
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1. focus on possessions: devotion to material wealth and possessions at the expense of spiritual or intellectual values
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2. theory of physical: the philosophical theory that physical matter is the only reality and that psychological states such as emotions, reason, thought, and desire will eventually be explained as physical functions
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