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vitalism

vitalism noun: the doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained scientifically.

Noun

vitalism (countable and uncountable, plural vitalisms)

  1. The doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained scientifically.
    • Theories and philosophies of vitalism are concerned with the distinction between life and non-life in some form. Given this emphasis, vitalism always has political stakes: where the boundary between life and non-life is drawn is, as theorists of biopolitics have shown, a supremely political matter...2023, Cat Moir, “What Is Living and What Is Dead In Political Vitalism?”, in Christopher Donohue, Charles T. Wolfe, editors, Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy...
    • It seems to me that in vitalism, there are people who are anti-Christian, like Bronze Age Pervert, like the Nazis.2025 May 1, Ross Douthat, “The New Culture of the Right: Vital, Masculine and Intentionally Offensive”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

vitalism meaning in Tamil

vitalism in Tamil

உயிர்த்துவ வாதம், தனி உயிர்த்திறவாதம், உயிர்விசைக்கொள்கை, உயிர்த் தத்துவக் கொள்கை

Forms of vitalism

pluralvitalisms

Origin of vitalism

From vital + -ism.

Words formed from vitalism

Questions about vitalism

What does vitalism mean?
Vitalism means the doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained scientifically.
What is vitalism in Tamil?
Vitalism in Tamil is உயிர்த்துவ வாதம், தனி உயிர்த்திறவாதம், உயிர்விசைக்கொள்கை. See Vitalism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vitalism?
Vitalism is a noun.
What is the plural of vitalism?
The plural of vitalism is vitalisms.

Words near vitalism in the dictionary

  1. vitalised
  2. vitaliser
  3. vitalisers
  4. vitalises
  5. vitalising
  6. vitalism
  7. vitalisms
  8. vitalist
  9. vitalistic
  10. vitalistically
  11. vitalists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vitalism (page history and authors); vitalism (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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