athanatism en · NOUN
Etymology
From a- + thanato- + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) immortality of the soul
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.
1904, Ernst Haeckel, Wonders of life, page 66:
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Translations (1)
it atanatismo (philosophy)