cerebralism

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English

Etymology

cerebral +‎ -ism

Noun

cerebralism (usually uncountable, plural cerebralisms)

  1. (philosophy, uncountable) The doctrine that non-physical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.
  2. (countable) Something cerebral.
    the enchanting cerebralisms of Eliot

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cerebralism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)