hylozoism

English

Etymology

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

Noun

hylozoism (countable and uncountable, plural hylozoisms)

1. A philosophical doctrine espousing that all or some material things possess life, or that all life is inseparable from matter.
   • a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia:

     […] 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?

Synonyms

• panbiotism

Derived terms

• hylozoic

Translations

belief

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 萬物有生命論／万物有生命论 (wànwù yǒu shēngmìng lùn)

• Finnish: hylotsoismi (fi)
• French: hylozoïsme (fr) m
• German: Hylozoismus (de) m
• Greek: υλοζωισμός (el) m (ylozoïsmós), υλοζωία (el) f (ylozoḯa)
• Romanian: hilozoism (ro) n
• Russian: гилозои́зм (ru) m (gilozoízm)

See also

• pandeism
• panpsychism
• pantheism
• panvitalism