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postmaterial

postmaterial adjective: having gone beyond materialism; no longer concerned with material things.

Adjective

postmaterial (comparative more postmaterial, superlative most postmaterial)

  1. Having gone beyond materialism; no longer concerned with material things.

Forms of postmaterial

comparativemore postmaterial
superlativemost postmaterial

Origin of postmaterial

From post- + material.

Questions about postmaterial

What does postmaterial mean?
Postmaterial means having gone beyond materialism; no longer concerned with material things.
What part of speech is postmaterial?
Postmaterial is an adjective.

Words near postmaterial in the dictionary

  1. postmasters general
  2. postmastership
  3. postmasterships
  4. postmastoid
  5. postmatch
  6. postmaterial
  7. postmaterialism
  8. postmaterialist
  9. postmaterialistic
  10. postmaterialists
  11. postmating

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