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materiality 

The singer/songwriter Madonna's hit song "Material Girl" in the 1980's first used the term materiality in response to a reporters question about her hit song a decade prior. She described it in the interview: "...I feel materiality is part of who we are, the texture of our life. I just wouldn't be able to perform to my best without a real sense of it each time I appear on stage".
The materiality of our existence is one where lines, objects, and places have their own distinct awareness of themselves compared to the forms and feelings of adjacent spaces.
materiality by Njorl April 19, 2016
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dialectical materialism

The Marxian interpretation of reality that views matter as the sole subject of change and all change as the product of a constant conflict between opposites arising from the internal contradictions inherent in all events, ideas, and movements.
The dialectic materialism between Bob and Alice, as manifested in their respective adherence to quintessential gender roles, became indisputably resolved as Bob skeeted all up on her face.

materialist 

someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter.
someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter.
materialist by materialist April 19, 2003

materialism 

1. A philosophy that holds that everything that exists is made of matter. (see also metaphysical naturalism)

2. The belief that material wealth is the greatest good. (see also objectivism)
1. "It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously." --H.L. Mencken

2. "It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly." --Thoreau
materialism by spline December 25, 2007

materialistic 

The act of caring more about THINGS than people; judging yourself and others on the cost of your stupid things.
She is so materialistic since she won the lotto!
materialistic by Cheyenne January 4, 2005

Materialize Juice 

Barrington buss pure materialize juice inna Shelly-Ann and now she get pregnant.

In Shabba Ranks song "Needle eye" he says, "She get materialize juice, to make mek she feel good."

synthetic materialism 

A framework of material reality as a manifestation of the irreversible nature of linear time

Posits linear time, material reality, and history as illusions or antitheses of Nietzsche's nihilism.

The synthesis of Karl Marx's dialectical materialism
Synthetic materialism argues that there is no history and by extension that there is no material reality.

Rather than material reality creating the illusion of a past, synthetic materialism argues that the past creates the illusion of material reality
synthetic materialism by sandraxine December 15, 2017