spermism en · NOUN
Etymology
From sperm + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The belief, held by spermists, that the male sperm holds the whole germ of the future animal.
It is tempting to dismiss spermism as a quaint curiosity in the history of ideas, on a par, say, with believing that the Earth is flat.
2001, David M Friedman, A Mind of its Own, Robert Hale, published 2009, page 62:
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