hyloist

English

Alternative forms

• hylist

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “matter”) +‎ -ist.

Noun

hyloist (plural hyloists)

1. (now rare, historical) Someone who believes that matter is God, or that there is no distinction between the two; a materialist.
   • 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section VII:

     But, leaving for the present, as far as relates to the material world, the materialists, hyloists, and antihyloists, to settle this point among them […] : we may very safely assert that the esse of happiness is percipi. It exists as it is perceived.

Synonyms

• hylotheist

Anagrams

• thioyls