physicism
English
Etymology
physic + -ism
Noun
physicism (uncountable)
- The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.
- 1870, Thomas Henry Huxley, The scientific aspects of positivism
- Anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science.
- 1870, Thomas Henry Huxley, The scientific aspects of positivism
References
physicism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913