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First attested in 1956; formed as pan- + sense + -ism. Compare omnisensuality and panæsthetism.
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pansensism
Today it means: The closely allied forms of panpsychism espoused by the Italian Renaissance philosophers Bernardino Telesio (1509–1588) and Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639), in which all things are capable of perception or sensation. Full definition →