Athanatism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    immortality of the soul uncountable

    "But its roots were destroyed when Copernicus refuted the geocentric theory in 1545; and athanatism became quite untenable when Darwin shattered the dogma of anthropocentricism."

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"But its roots were destroyed when Copernicus refuted the geocentric theory in 1545; and athanatism became quite untenable when Darwin shattered the dogma of anthropocentricism."

Etymology

From a- + thanato- + -ism.

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