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vitalisms

vitalisms is the plural of vitalism.

Meaning of vitalism

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...

Questions about vitalisms

What is vitalisms the plural of?
Vitalisms is the plural of vitalism.

Words near vitalisms in the dictionary

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

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