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physicism en · NOUN

Etymology

From physic + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.
    • Anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science. 1870, Thomas Henry Huxley, The scientific aspects of positivism: