hylozoism
English
Etymology
From hylo- + Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) + -ism.
Noun
hylozoism (countable and uncountable, plural hylozoisms)
- A philosophical doctrine espousing that all or some material things possess life, or that all life is inseparable from matter.
- a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia
- […] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?
- a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia
Synonyms
- panbiotism
Translations
belief
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See also
- pandeism
- panpsychism
- pantheism
- panvitalism