Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/pænˈzəʊɪzəm/ · noun
(rare, archaic) The belief that the entire universe is a living thing, or is suffused with life..
He holds that there is a pangenesis or panzoism in all animated being. Now, what is this but the "life" of the old zoologists whom they so ridicule?
But there [is] also panzoism, maintaining that the universe is a living being and has a soul, and anti-intellectualism, holding that genuine intellectual analysis is impossible, both because each thing is infinitely complex and because the removal of a part alters its causal context.
Why Carus did not use 'hylozoism' is not clear. Regardless, that term is now rarely used, as is also true of the variation panzoism.
Use panzoism when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Panzoism means (rare, archaic) The belief that the entire universe is a living thing, or is suffused with life..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He holds that there is a pangenesis or panzoism in all animated being. Now, what is this but the "life" of the old zoologists whom they so ridicule?
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.