'Immaterialism' definitions:

Definition of 'Immaterialism'

From: GCIDE
  • Immaterialism \Im`ma*te"ri*al*ism\, n. [Cf. F. immat['e]rialisme.]
  • 1. The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]