Converse of object

• reject: Well, I'm sorry - but if rejecting materialism means destroying the property of others; then I don't understand.

• call: Some ' monist ' views, often called materialism, think that there is only matter, and no spirit or divine.

• challenge: The encouraging thing is there is a whole group of people starting to rise up who are challenging this materialism.

• embrace: His hylomorphism, then, embraces neither reductive materialism nor Platonic dualism.

• represent: Rome represented the materialism and decadence of this world.

• increase: The current historical phase has been a process of increasing materialism and a simultaneous decrease in spirituality.

Adjective modifier

• dialectical: Thus dialectical materialism is seen to offer the only approach to reality which can give action a direction.

• eliminative: Consequently, the question of whether a theory change should be ontologically conservative or radical has no clear answer, contrary to eliminative materialism.

• atheistic: This attitude can be seen in someone like Richard Dawkins, arguing from the point of view of radical atheistic materialism.

• crass: Some object to the monetary incentives as crass materialism and argue for donors receiving no more than medical expenses and insurance policies.

• rampant: The pendulum of rampant materialism has now swung too far, correspondingly to be rebuked by new forces of dissent.

• reductive: His hylomorphism, then, embraces neither reductive materialism nor Platonic dualism.

Modifies a noun

• cannot: Discusses the Problem of Form and shows how modern materialism cannot grasp this essential concept.

Noun used with modifier

• century: Materialism preceded Marxism by more than two thousand years and in the eighteenth century materialism was the standpoint of the rising bourgeoisie.

• consumer: Consumer materialism is the realization both of anomie and of environmental degradation.

• bling: I worry a lot about the bling bling materialism, the rabid consumerism, that pervades many of our inner-city areas.

Preposition: in

• century: Her first book was on Sade and materialism ( 2002 ); she is now working on materialism in the nineteenth century.

Preposition: of

• world: It revealed a love of the materialism of this world.

• century: However, Marx did not stop at the materialism of the eighteenth century but moved philosophy forward.