Materialism \Ma*te"ri*al*ism\, n. [Cf. F. mat['e]rialisme.]

1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)