hylozoism

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Etymology

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

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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?

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