Immaterialism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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     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.
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