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materialistic

adjective as in thinking mainly about physical things

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Example Sentences

I love stuff, especially stuff that feels like it might add an element of personalization in a society that so often subscribes to materialistic monoculture.

From Slate

He cares little about materialistic notions of success.

Later they turn to kingly and materialistic protections against their wandering.

From Salon

I realized that I’d been pretty materialistic, a “living in the moment” kind of a thing and not really thinking much about the long term.

From Slate

The research team used six different questionnaires to determine the extent to which the participants had a materialistic attitude and tended to compare themselves with others, whether they used social media more actively or passively, whether they were addicted to social media, how stressed and how satisfied they were with their lives.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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