monopsychism

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noun

The doctrine that human beings share the same intellect.

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Meanings

nounmonopsychism (uncountable)
  1. historicaluncountablehuman sciencesThe doctrine that human beings share the same intellect.

    The first concerns the problem that Latin Averroism presented to Western philosophy in connection with its doctrine that there is only one mind for all human beings—a doctrine that has come to be called monopsychism.

    2014, Markus Führer, Echoes of Aquinas in Cusanus's Vision of Man, page 115

Origin

From mono- + psyche + -ism.

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monopsychism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monopsychism

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