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Noun Concept
Categories: Pejorative terms for people, Articles with short description, Theories of aesthetics, Anti-intellectualism
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materialism  philistinism  philistine
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A desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters WordNet 3.0
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A desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In the fields of philosophy and of aesthetics, the term philistinism describes the attitudes, habits, and characteristics of a person who deprecates art and beauty, spirituality and intellect. Wikipedia
manners, habits, and character of a person whose anti-intellectual social attitude undervalues and despises art, beauty, spirituality and intellect Wikidata
Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns. OmegaWiki
Concern over material possessions. Wiktionary (translation)
A materialistic attitude accompanied by ignorance of artistic or cultural matters. Wiktionary
Philistinism. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
desire
attitude
DERIVATION
materialist
bourgeois
materialistic
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
NAMED AFTER
Philistine
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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materialism, philistinism
Wikipedia
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philistinism
Wikidata
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philistinism
Wiktionary
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materialism, philistinism
OmegaWiki
EN
materialism
Wikidata Alias
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philistine

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