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. [R. & Obs.] A.
Chalmers.
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Ma*te"ri*al*ist (m*t"r*al*st), n. [Cf. F. matérialiste.] 1. One who
denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains
that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar
organization of matter.
2. One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the
idealist, who denies it. Berkeley.
{ Ma*te`ri*al*is"tic (?), Ma*te`ri*al*is"tic*al (?), } a. Of or
pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of
materialism.
But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his
physics.