anatomism
anatomism noun: the application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
Noun (1)
anatomism (uncountable)
- The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
- The stretched and vivid anatomism of their great figure painters.1878 May 7 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, April 27, 1878”, in The Spectator, number (please specify the issue number); republished in Alexander Chalmers...
- The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.
Noun (2)
anatomism (uncountable)
- The quality of not being atomic, but rather, being composed ofmultiple separable parts.
- In terms of the distinction I drew earlier between the possession of generic semantic propertis and the possession of specific semantic properties, I want to say that weak anatomism involves the possession of generic semantic properties; strong anatomism involves the possession of specific semantic...1997, Pierre Jacob, What Minds Can Do, page 199
- Weak anatomism, however, seems to Fodor and Lepore to be a position they need not bother with.2003, Jane Heal, Mind, Reason and Imagination, page 119
Origin of anatomism
From anatomy + -ism.
From an- + atom + -ism.
Questions about anatomism
- What does anatomism mean?
- Anatomism means the application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
- What part of speech is anatomism?
- Anatomism is a noun.
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