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Meaning of hylozoism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A philosophical doctrine espousing that all or some material things possess life, or that all life is inseparable from matter.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Deutsch Hylozoismus
Suomi hylotsoismi
Français hylozoïsme
Русский гилозои́зм

Examples

“[…] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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