psychismとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Compare French psychisme.

名詞

psychism (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 psychisms)

1. (philosophy) The old doctrine that there is a fluid (continuity) universally diffusing, and equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations.
   • 1858, William Fleming, The Vocabulary of Philosophy

     PSYCHISM […] is the word to denote the doctrine that there is a fluid, diffused throughout all nature […]

派生語

• infrapsychism (rare)
• panpsychism

関連する語

• psychist

参照

psychism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.