panzoism

See also: pan-zoism

English

Alternative forms

• panzooism, pan-zoism

Etymology

From pan- +‎ zoism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pænˈzəʊɪzəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pænˈzoʊɪzəm/

Noun

panzoism (uncountable)

1. (rare, archaic) Belief that the entire universe is a living thing, or is suffused with life.
   • 1875, James McCosh, Ideas in Nature Overlooked by Dr. Tyndall, page 37:

     He holds that there is a pangenesis or panzoism in all animated being. Now, what is this but the "life" of the old zoologists whom they so ridicule?

   • 1918, Edward Gleason Spaulding, The New Rationalism, page 34:

     But there [is] also panzoism, maintaining that the universe is a living being and has a soul, and anti-intellectualism, holding that genuine intellectual analysis is impossible, both because each thing is infinitely complex and because the removal of a part alters its causal context.

   • 2005, David Skrbina, Panpsychism In The West, page 220:

     Why Carus did not use 'hylozoism' is not clear. Regardless, that term is now rarely used, as is also true of the variation panzoism.

Derived terms

• panzoist
• panzoists
• panzoistic

See also

• pandemonism
• panpsychism
• pandeism
• pantheism

Anagrams

• Pazminos