materialistic
adj/məˌtɪəɹ.i.əˈlɪs.tɪk/
Etymology From material + -istic.
1
Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
- Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals).2019 August 20, Fancy Feast, “On Being a Fetish”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020:
2
Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences Synonym of materialist, of or concerning materialism.
- But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.1852, Charles Kingsley, Phaeton, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers:
- Derived terms
- amaterialistic, antimaterialistic, hypermaterialistic, immaterialistic, materialistically, nonmaterialistic, postmaterialistic, unmaterialistic
- Related terms
- materialism