vitalism

English

Etymology

vital +‎ -ism

Noun

vitalism (countable and uncountable, plural vitalisms)

1. The doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained scientifically.

Translations

doctrine that life involves a "vital force"

• Catalan: vitalisme m
• Danish: vitalisme c
• Dutch: vitalisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: vitalismo (eo)
• Finnish: vitalismi
• French: vitalisme (fr) m
• Galician: vitalismo m
• German: Vitalismus (de) m
• Greek: βιταλισμός (el) m (vitalismós)
• Ido: vitalismo (io)
• Italian: vitalismo (it) m
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vitalisme m

  Nynorsk: vitalisme m

• Polish: witalizm m
• Portuguese: vitalismo m
• Russian: витали́зм (ru) m (vitalízm)
• Spanish: vitalismo (es) m
• Swedish: vitalism (sv) c
• Ukrainian: віталі́зм m (vitalízm)
• Volapük: lifälim

See also

• élan vital