acosmism

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κόσμος (kósmos, “world”) + ism.

Noun

acosmism (uncountable)

1. A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.
2. The determination of the world as mere phenomena to which true reality does not pertain.
   • 1830, GWF Hegel, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline Part 1: Logic, page 224:

     "[Spinoza's] system would have to be designated not an 'atheism' but instead the reverse, an 'acosmism', since according to this philosophy there is actually no world at all in the sense of something positively being."

Derived terms

• acosmic
• acosmist

Translations

denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God

• Polish: akosmizm
• Portuguese: acosmismo m