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Immaterialism

Immaterialism \Im`ma*te"ri*al*ism\, n. [Cf. F. immat['e]rialisme.]

  1. The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible.

  2. (Philos.) The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.

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immaterialism

n. (context philosophy English) The metaphysical denial of the existence of the material world

Usage examples of "immaterialism".

Once its mode of communication was understood, Chimborazo's immaterialism and transcendent qualities would set humankind upon a fresher and more vital path than could at present be visualised.