Meanings
alternative hylozoick
- not comparableOf or related to hylozoism, believing that all physical matter is alive or that life arises from matter.
Hylozoic atheism... which accounts the world to be animated in all its parts.
1839, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, volume IV, page 1891 more example
These Atheists may be also called Hylozoick... because they derive all things in the whole Universe... from the Life of the Matter.
1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe..., page 62Synonyms: hylozoist, hylozoistic, hylozoical, materialist
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf or related to hylozoism, believing that all physical matter is alive or that life arises from matter.
Origin
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