hylozoic
UK/hʌɪləʊˈzəʊɪk/US/haɪloʊˈzoʊɪk/
hylozoic adjective: of or related to hylozoism, believing that all physical matter is alive or that life arises from matter.
Adjective
hylozoic (not comparable)
- Of or related to hylozoism, believing that all physical matter is alive or that life arises from matter.
- 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 62
- 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 189
- Synonyms:
- hylozoist, hylozoistic, hylozoical, materialist
Synonyms of hylozoic
Forms of hylozoic
| alternative form | hylozoick |
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Origin of hylozoic
From hylo- (“wood, matter”) + -zoic (“of or related to life or living things”).
Questions about hylozoic
- What does hylozoic mean?
- Hylozoic means of or related to hylozoism, believing that all physical matter is alive or that life arises from matter.
- What part of speech is hylozoic?
- Hylozoic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce hylozoic?
- Hylozoic is pronounced /haɪloʊˈzoʊɪk/ (US).
Words near hylozoic in the dictionary
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