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Noun materialism has 2 senses
  1. materialism, philistinism - a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters
    --1 is a kind of desire
  2. materialism, physicalism - (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality
    --2 is a kind of philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory
    --2 has particulars: dialectical materialism
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