French materialism

is English materialism civilised: the French gave it wit, flesh and blood, eloquence, temperament and grace.

Recast in definition form from: “The French imparted to English materialism wit, flesh and blood, and eloquence. They gave it the temperament and grace that it lacked. They civilised it.”

Denis Diderot

Enlightenment (European)

Karl Marx

socialism

atheism

mechanism

France

John Locke

aleatory materialism

cultural materialism

democratic materialism

dialectical materialism

eliminative materialism

enchanted materialism

historical geographical materialism

historical materialism

intransigent materialism

Lucretian materialism

medical materialism

neomaterialism

new materialism

relational materialism

speculative materialism

spiritual materialism

vital materialism

acronyms

anagram

antonym

Back in My Day

binomial

blonde joke

bumper sticker

Chuck Norris

cockney rhyming slang

collective noun

comeback

confucius say

cool comparisons

curse

death mask

Deep Thoughts

etymology

false attribution

famous last word

glossary

greeting

haiku

home remedy

I like my [x] like I like my [y]

idiom

let's make like a  . . .

life hack

light bulb joke

limerick

mixed metaphor

mnemonic device

murphy's law

my wife left me

nonsense question

ology (the study of)

optical illusion

oxymoron

palindrome

phobia

pickup line

psychological phenomena and effects

reimagining the x

riddle

seen here

slang

someone should invent

stupid law

superlative

superstition

symbolism

there's a word for that

things that look like other things

Thomasson hyperart

toast (speech)

Tom Swifty

tongue twister

trolley problem

untranslatable word

wacky wares

weather lore

WTF origins

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