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vitalism

noun

Etymology

From vital + -ism.

  1. derived from vītālis
  2. derived from vital
  3. inherited from vital
  4. suffixed as vitalism — “vital + ism”

Definitions

  1. The doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained…

    The doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained scientifically.

    • It seems to me that in vitalism, there are people who are anti-Christian, like Bronze Age Pervert, like the Nazis.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for vitalism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA