physicalism

English

Etymology

physical +‎ -ism

Noun

physicalism (countable and uncountable, plural physicalisms)

1. (philosophy) A philosophical position holding that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; that is, that there are no kinds of things other than physical things.

Synonyms

• (philosophy): materialism
• (philosophy): philosophical materialism

Antonyms

• (philosophy): idealism

Hypernyms

• (philosophy): monism
• (philosophy): realism

See also

• (philosophy): dualism

Translations

philosophical position

• Finnish: fysikalismi
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Galician: fisicalismo (gl) m

See also

• idealism