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pan-zoism

pan-zoism is the alternative form of panzoism.

Meaning of panzoism

Noun

panzoism (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, rare) The belief that the entire universe is a living thing, or is suffused with life.
    • He holds that there is a pangenesis or panzoism in all animated being. Now, what is this but the "life" of the old zoologists whom they so ridicule?1875, James McCosh, Ideas in Nature Overlooked by Dr. Tyndall, page 37

Questions about pan-zoism

What is pan-zoism the alternative form of?
Pan-zoism is the alternative form of panzoism.

Words near pan-zoism in the dictionary

  1. Pan-Turkist
  2. Pan-Turkists
  3. pan-vitalism
  4. pan-yard
  5. pan-yards
  6. pan-zoism
  7. pan-zooism
  8. Pan.
  9. Pana
  10. panabase
  11. panabinostat

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