immaterialism

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: im=ma=te=ri=al=ism

CIDE DICTIONARY

immaterialism, n. [Cf. F. immatérialisme.].

•  The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

immaterialism, n. the doctrine that matter has no objective existence.

Derivative

immaterialist n.

ROGET THESAURUS

immaterialism

Immateriality

N immateriality, immaterialness, incorporeity, spirituality, inextension, astral plane, personality, I, myself, me, ego, spirit, astral body, immaterialism, spiritualism, spiritualist, immaterial, immateriate, incorporeal, incorporal, incorporate, unfleshly, supersensible, asomatous, unextended, unembodied, disembodied, extramundane, unearthly, pneumatoscopic, spiritual, personal, subjective, nonobjective.