Hylozoism
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A philosophical doctrine espousing that all or some material things possess life, or that all life is inseparable from matter. countable, uncountable
"[…] 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?"
Example
More examples"[…] 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?"
Etymology
From hylo- + Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) + -ism.
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