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1 the belief that money and possessions are more important than art, religion, moral beliefs etc - used in order to show disapproval : 
a reaction to a world full of shallow materialism
a reaction to a world full of shallow materialism2RP the belief that only physical things really exist
—materialist adjective: materialist philosophy
materialist philosophy —materialist noun [countable] We confess to being hopeless materialists, surrounded by our own neat stuff.
We confess to being hopeless materialists, surrounded by our own neat stuff.