athanatism

English

Etymology

a- +‎ thanato- +‎ -ism

Noun

athanatism (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) immortality of the soul
   • 1904, Ernst Haeckel, Wonders of life, page 66:

     But its roots were destroyed when Copernicus refuted the geocentric theory in 1545; and athanatism became quite untenable when Darwin shattered the dogma of anthropocentricism.

Related terms

• athanasy

Translations

philosophy

• Italian: atanatismo m

Anagrams

• antiasthma