variants
or less commonly antimaterialism
: opposition to materialism
Anti-communism was a favorite subject of the 1950s, he said, but so, to his surprise, was anti-materialism.—Gayle White
Anyone of a certain age will recall that dumpster diving first became a lifestyle choice in the 1960s as part of the decade's brief flirtation with antimaterialism …—Janna Malamud Smith
anti-materialist
adjective
or less commonly antimaterialist
ˌan-tē-mə-ˈtir-ē-ə-list,
ˌan-tī-
anti-materialist values
anti-materialistic
adjective
or less commonly antimaterialistic
ˌan-tē-mə-ˌtir-ē-ə-ˈli-stik,
ˌan-tī-
The absence of money values may be partly caused by the vague anti-materialistic sentiments of the sorts of young college graduates who choose Washington over New York and Los Angeles.
—Michael Lewis
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