Word.ws English Dictionary

neurism

neurism noun: a supposed "nerve force" in vitalism.

Noun

neurism (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A supposed "nerve force" in vitalism.

Origin of neurism

From neur- + -ism.

Questions about neurism

What does neurism mean?
Neurism means a supposed "nerve force" in vitalism.
What part of speech is neurism?
Neurism is a noun.

Words near neurism in the dictionary

  1. neurine
  2. neurines
  3. neurinoma
  4. neurinomas
  5. neurinomata
  6. neurism
  7. neuristor
  8. neuristors
  9. neurite
  10. neurites
  11. neuritic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: neurism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “neurism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/neurism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.