verb
- to deprive of spiritual quality, meaning, or significance; to make secular or materialistic
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- Modern consumer culture tends to despiritualize religious holidays by focusing solely on commercial transactions.
- The critic argued that the film despiritualizes the sacred text by reducing it to entertainment.
- Some philosophers worry that technology despiritualizes human relationships.
- The author felt that constant materialism had despiritualizes society's values.
- Reducing art to mere investment despiritualizes its creative purpose.