Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The doctrine or belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe. Also hulotheism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See materialism.

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  • noun Theory equating matter with God or merging one into the other (see pantheism).
  • noun Doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe (see materialism).

Etymologies

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From hylo- +‎ theism.

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  • The doctrine equating god to matter, or the universe.

    May 12, 2008