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Webster 1913 Edition


Psychism

Psy′chism

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Noun.
[Cf. F.
psychisme
.]
(Philos.)
The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations.
Fleming.

Definition 2024


psychism

psychism

English

Noun

psychism (countable and uncountable, plural psychisms)

  1. (philosophy) The old doctrine that there is a fluid universally diffused, and equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations.
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