PHYSICALISM

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Meaning:

(philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality

Synonyms:

materialism; physicalism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("physicalism" is a kind of...):

philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)

Domain category:

philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physicalism"):

dialectical materialism (the materialistic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)