ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Acosmism

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Acosmism is a noun meaning A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.

Meaning

A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.

More Meanings

  1. The determination of the world as mere phenomena to which true reality does not pertain.

Example Sentences

"[Spinoza's] system would have to be designated not an 'atheism' but instead the reverse, an 'acosmism', since according to this philosophy there is actually no world at all in the sense of something positively being."

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nonism, apatheism, immaterialism, noneism, atheism, panatheism.

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