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The attitude or belief that owning money and physical things — nice clothes, cars, phones — is the most important part of life, more important than feelings, relationships, or ideas. It's usually used to criticize a person or a whole society for caring too much about buying and owning things.
物質主義（過度重視金錢與物質享受）
組成material (physical things, stuff) + -ism (a suffix for a belief or attitude).
同家族的字
- materialmaterialism is built on caring about material — physical things
- materialisticthe adjective form, describing a person who cares too much about possessions
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
materialismnoun/məˈtɪɹiəlɪzəm/
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Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
- We accept that a third of the population live on the poverty line. We accept that only a handful of the most exceptional of the children of the poor will make it through to a third-level education. We accept massive examples of greed and dishonesty in public life. We except the values of materialism. What do we expect then—to be left un-harassed, we who have all the privileges?
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesThe philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.
- The result of the labours of philosophy appeared to be a total scepticism on the most important subjects of hu man duty and expectation. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus; and this system—if system it may be called, which left them without a God, a providence, a morality, or a retribution—was the fashionable philosophy of the more cultivated classes.
- Medical materialism seems indeed a good appellation for the too simple-minded system of thought which we are considering. ... All such mental over-tensions, it says, are, when you come to the bottom of the matter, mere affairs of diathesis (auto-intoxications most probably), due to the perverted action of various glands which physiology will yet discover.
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obsoleterareSynonym of matter, material substances in the aggregate.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。