hylozoisms

Noun

hylozoism (countable and uncountable, plural hylozoisms)

1. The belief that all physical matter is alive in some sense.
   • Hylozoism... makes all Body, as such, and therefore every smallest Atom of it, to have Life Essentially belonging to it.1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe..., page 105

   Synonyms:

   panbiotism

2. Synonym of materialism, the belief that all life derives entirely from physical matter.
   • […] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia

   Synonyms:

   materialism