The 5s are part of a grouping with the 6's and 7s which are part of the head triad, which are driven by fear as the primary emotion.
Although materialism isn't the defining feature of 5's, 5's are derived by as having avarice as their passion (http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/history.asp - miles down the page). Avarice is normally defined as a greed for material wealth or gain. The avarice in enneagram defined as not exclusively materialism in the case of the 5 but also of knowledge and security which are accumulated in an attempted to generate self-security. It is usually overshadowed in the 'materialism' stakes by 7 which has gluttony as its passion, which instead of accumulation is consumption focused.
Of course like all of the passions, the 5s passion for security through accumulation is unquenchable. As a 5 who most often tends to attract 7s, I can find that requests to feed the similarly unquenchable needs of 7s are entirely impossible and lead to withdrawl that the connection that a 7 would normally expect.
By contrast the 4 is part of the heart triad and along with the 2s and 3s, they are driven by grief as the primary emotion.
4's are driven by envy, to reacquire self definition which was once lost (the grief part) which leads them to covet ideas exclusively and from those ideas craft a persona which they will identify and derive their uniqueness. Over time this is refined and redefined as new ideas are discovered.
This continual association and re-association often leads to a strong sense of what is different even when the difference is very small. This generates most of lifes conflicts for the 4.
What I find most interesting is that the 4's 'Idea' is that of Holy origin, that being that our being itself simply is us and that the holy ideas merely obscure the real being that is ourself. I found this most profound when you discussed your food preferences which tended to make you more relaxed and also confident rather than dismissive.



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