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corpuscularism

corpuscularism noun: an ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.

Noun

corpuscularism (uncountable)

  1. (historical) An ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
    • The bond between politics as a question of the bodies' appetites and physics is suggested to Vico by the at once ancient and modern science of corpuscularism. The “corpuscular hypothesis,” which is the theory of the corpuscular or mechanical constitution of universal matter common to all bodies...2014, Giuseppe Mazzotta, The New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico

Origin of corpuscularism

From corpuscular + -ism.

Questions about corpuscularism

What does corpuscularism mean?
Corpuscularism means an ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
What part of speech is corpuscularism?
Corpuscularism is a noun.

Words near corpuscularism in the dictionary

  1. corpuscles
  2. corpuscular
  3. corpuscularian
  4. corpuscularianism
  5. corpuscularians
  6. corpuscularism
  7. corpuscularity
  8. corpusculated
  9. corpuscule
  10. corpuscules
  11. corpusculous

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