materialistic
adjective
excessively concerned with physical comforts or the acquisition of wealth and material possessions, rather than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
antimaterialistic
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a word derived from
materialistic.
Example Sentences
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The challenge of "living free," seeing Europe on a shoestring and with a sleeping bag, has elements of reverse snobbism that appeal to the professed antimaterialistic instincts of youth.
From Time Magazine Archive
He believes that rising inflation could bring an alliance between antimaterialistic young people and conservatives seeking a return to the old values.
From Time Magazine Archive
Affluence, the new rise in hedonism, and the antimaterialistic notions expressed in Charles Reich's The Greening of America have turned many young people against their parents' dedication to work for the sake of success.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kindlon argues that as parents, his fellow baby boomers rely too much on their permissive behavioral values and too little on the antimaterialistic values that shaped their youth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not that Nominalism in itself, and as Leibnitz held it, is necessarily materialistic, but Realism is essentially antimaterialistic.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various
