- preoccupation with or emphasis on material objects, comforts, and considerations, with a disinterest in or rejection of spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
- the philosophical theory that regards matter and its motions as constituting the universe, and all phenomena, including those of mind, as due to material agencies.
- interest in and desire for money, possessions, etc, rather than spiritual or ethical values
- the monist doctrine that matter is the only reality and that the mind, the emotions, etc, are merely functions of it
- the rejection of any religious or supernatural account of things
