Hyphenation of materialism

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word materialism? This word can be hyphenated and contains 5 syllables as shown below.

ma-te-ri-al-ism

Definitions of materialism:

1.	A desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters
2.	(philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality

Synonyms of materialism:

noun	philistinism, desire
noun	physicalism, philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.