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PHILISTINISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters
Synonyms:
materialism; philistinism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("philistinism" is a kind of...):
desire (something that is desired)