English Explanatory Dictionary

dialectical materialism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The concept of reality in which material things are in the constant process of change brought about by the tension between conflicting or interacting forces, elements, or ideas.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

dialectical materialism

Etymology

Calque of German dialektischer Materialismus, coined by Joseph Dietzgen in Streifzüge eines Sozialisten in das Gebiet der Erkenntnißtheorie [1887].

Synonyms

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