materialistic

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English material
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
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Latin -icusbor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -istic
English materialistic

    From material + -istic.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /məˌtɪəɹ.i.əˈlɪs.tɪk/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)

    Adjective

    materialistic (comparative more materialistic, superlative most materialistic)

    1. Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
      • 2019 August 20, Fancy Feast, “On Being a Fetish”, in Jewish Currents‎[1], number Summer 2019, archived from the original on 8 August 2020:
        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).
    2. (philosophy) Synonym of materialist, of or concerning materialism.
      • 1852, Charles Kingsley, Phaeton, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers:
        But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.

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