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pan-zooism

pan-zooism 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-zooism

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

Words near pan-zooism in the dictionary

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

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