Nonism

Quick meaning: Nonism is a noun meaning The abstention from harmful activities, foods, and so on.

Meaning

The abstention from harmful activities, foods, and so on.

More Meanings

1. (philosophy) The stance that the nature of reality is unknowable because all information comes through the senses, which are unreliable.
2. (philosophy) The denial of higher-level meaning beyond physical existence; materialism.
3. (philosophy) The belief in the existence of entities and events within a domain that can only be defined in terms of what it is not.

Example Sentences

Neo-Platonism "tended to break the unity of life and thought which Christianity sought to establish," yet withal it prevented a too "facile nonism."

Sir Oliver's standing as a scientist makes his book interesting as a statement of the reasons a scientist can give in opposition to the conclusions of materialistic nonism.

That philosophy of the relation of psyche and soma which may be called materialistic nonism, the philosophy most congenial to behaviorists, was as ancient as Greek thought.

Shakespeare, of course, called life "a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage..." and James Thurber continued: "It's a tale told in an idiom, full of unsoundness and fury, signifying nonism."

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Related dictionary entries include abstinence, nonabstention, abstentionism, abstention, abstainment, abstinency.

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