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Hylozoism

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Noun
  1. 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?"

Etymology

From hylo- + Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) + -ism.

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