physicism

English

Etymology

physic +‎ -ism

Noun

physicism (uncountable)

1. The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.
   • 1870, Thomas Henry Huxley, The scientific aspects of positivism:

     Anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science.

References

“physicism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.