Definition of Antimaterialism

1. Noun. (philosophy) Any belief system that opposes philosophical materialism. ¹

2. Noun. Opposition to economical materialism or consumerism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Antimaterialism

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antimaterialism

antimarket
antimarketeer
antimarketeers
antimarriage
antimarxism
antimask
antimasks
antimason
antimasonic
antimasonry
antimasons
antimasque
antimasques
antimaterial
antimaterialism (current term)
antimaterialist
antimaterialistic
antimaterialists
antimaternal
antimatroid
antimatroidal
antimatroids
antimatter
antimatters
antimeat
antimechanism
antimechanist
antimechanistic
antimechanists

Literary usage of Antimaterialism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Christian Examiner (1837)
"The Alexandrians must of course have been averse to the doctrine of Chiliasm, which, as then held, was so contrary to their antimaterialism. ..."

2. Lord Byron Jugé Par Les Témoins de Sa Vie: My Recollections of Lord Byron by Teresa Guiccioli (1869)
"antimaterialism. AMONG Lord Byron's natural qualities we may rank his antipathy, not only for anything like low sensuality or gross vice, but even for those ..."

3. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1900)
"Assuming that the conditions of thought now referred to exist, how are they to be met ? Not, certainly, by that mere and bare dogmatical antimaterialism ..."

4. Strauss as a Philosophical Thinker: A Review of His Book "The Old Faith and by Hermann Ulrici, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1874)
"WEIS, the chemist, is author of " antimaterialism," in which he has shown marked ability as an investigator of nature and as a philosophical thinker. ..."

5. Latin and Teutonic Christendom: An Historical Sketch by George William Cox (1870)
"We must watch the struggles of conflicting ideas, borrowed, some from the mystic antimaterialism of Zoroaster, some from the bewildering physical science of ..."

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