psychism
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
psychism (countable and uncountable, plural psychisms)
- (philosophy) The old doctrine that there is a fluid (continuity) universally diffusing, and equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations.
- 1858, William Fleming, The Vocabulary of Philosophy:
- PSYCHISM […] is the word to denote the doctrine that there is a fluid, diffused throughout all nature […]
Derived terms[edit]
- infrapsychism (rare)
- panpsychism
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
“psychism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.