Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Belief in the material or physical as opposed to the spiritual.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
tendency of themind toward, or itspreoccupation with,physical phenomena ;materialism inphilosophy andreligion .
Etymologies
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physic + -ism
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Examples
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In the progress of the species from savagery to advanced civilization, anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science; but the development of the two is contemporaneous, not successive.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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(And it's true that we don't usually talk about violinism or physicism, or rapism for that matter.)
The gaping silence 2010
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