immaterialism

American  

[im-uh-teer-ee-uh-liz-uhm] / ˌɪm əˈtɪər i əˌlɪz əm /

noun

1. the doctrine that there is no material world, but that all things exist only in and for minds.

2. the doctrine that only immaterial substances or spiritual beings exist.

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immaterialism British  

/ ˌɪməˈtɪərɪəˌlɪzəm /

noun

1. the doctrine that the material world exists only in the mind

2. the doctrine that only immaterial substances or spiritual beings exist See also idealism

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Other Word Forms

• immaterialist noun

Etymology

Origin of immaterialism

1705–15; immaterial + -ism, modeled on materialism

Example Sentences

As George Berkeley, the 18th-century philosopher of immaterialism, might have asked: What are windows without window shoppers to see them?

From New York Times

Though the theology of Joseph Smith insists that immaterialism is an absurdity, yet it permits no overlapping of the earthly and the spiritual.

From Project Gutenberg

Wherever there is Nature, the soul is its universal immaterialism, its simple “ideal” life.

From Project Gutenberg

Here we come upon the issue between materialism and immaterialism.

From Project Gutenberg

At what age of the Christian Church this heresy of immaterialism or masked atheism, crept in, I do not exactly know.

From Project Gutenberg