physicism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

physic +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

physicism (uncountable)

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

References[edit]

“physicism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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