physicism
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editphysicism (uncountable)
- 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
edit“physicism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.