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panzoism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /pænˈzoʊɪzəm/ (US)
• /pænˈzəʊɪzəm/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-énts Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts? Proto-Hellenic *pánts Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs)der. Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-)bor. English pan- English zoism English panzoism From pan- + zoism.

Meanings

1. (archaic, rare, uncountable) The belief that the entire universe is a living thing, or is suffused with life.
   • Why Carus did not use 'hylozoism' is not clear. Regardless, that term is now rarely used, as is also true of the variation panzoism. 2005, David Skrbina, Panpsychism In The West, page 220:
   • But there [is] also panzoism, maintaining that the universe is a living being and has a soul, and anti-intellectualism, holding that genuine intellectual analysis is impossible, both because each thing is infinitely complex and because the removal of a part alters its causal context. 1918, Edward Gleason Spaulding, The New Rationalism, page 34:
   • He holds that there is a pangenesis or panzoism in all animated being. Now, what is this but the "life" of the old zoologists whom they so ridicule? 1875, James McCosh, Ideas in Nature Overlooked by Dr. Tyndall, page 37:

Forms

Deriveds

panzoistic · panzoist · panzoists

Relateds

pantheism · pandeism · pandemonism · panpsychism