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Webster 1913 Edition


Immaterialism

Imˊma-te′ri-al-ism

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Noun.
[Cf. F.
immatérialisme
.]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Immaterialism

IMMATE'RIALISM

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Noun.
The doctrine of the existence or state of immaterial substances or spiritual beings.

Definition 2024


immaterialism

immaterialism

English

Noun

immaterialism (countable and uncountable, plural immaterialisms)

  1. (philosophy) The metaphysical denial of the existence of the material world