ovism en · NOUN
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From Latin ovum (“egg”) + -ism.
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(historical, uncountable) The belief that the ovum holds all material needed for the development of the embryo.
Above all, ovism seems to us utterly impossible: how could every human being that ever existed or ever will exist be contained, fully formed, within Eve's ovaries?
2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 238:
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