psychism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare French psychisme.

Noun[edit]

psychism (countable and uncountable, plural psychisms)

  1. (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 […]

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References[edit]

“psychism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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