psychism

American  

[sahyk-iz-uhm] / ˈsaɪk ɪz əm /

noun

1. psychic abilities or phenomena, such as telekinesis or extrasensory perception, or the belief in such abilities or phenomena.

2. the belief that all things, including plants and inanimate objects, possess a soul. Compare panpsychism.

3. the belief in an immaterial substance that animates all living beings.

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Other Word Forms

• psychist
  noun

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psychism

We are far too apt, in our ordinary thought and talking, to limit the words "psychical," "psychic," or "psychism" in a quite illegitimate way, and the popular use of the term is illegitimate.

From London Lectures of 1907 by Annie Wood Besant

For instance, if it is claimed in the name of supernaturalism and psychism that a man is unhappy because he is vicious, it is equivalent to making a one-sided statement.

From The Positive School of Criminology Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 by Enrico Ferri

She knows the psychism of patterns and evolves them with strict regard for the pictural aspects in them which save them from banality as ideas.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley

One fears lest sooner or later a reaction against the contortions of this empiricism and psychism should lead to a modern rehabilitation of mysticism or occultism.

From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto

Spirituality is the Self-realisation of the One; psychism is the manifestation of the powers of consciousness through organised matter.

From London Lectures of 1907 by Annie Wood Besant

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