From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Immaterialism \Im'ma*te"ri*al*ism\, noun [Cf. F. immat['e]rialisme.]
1. The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible.
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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