Pythagoreanism

American  

[pi-thag-uh-ree-uh-niz-uhm] / pɪˌθæg əˈri əˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.

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Pythagoreanism British  

/ paɪˌθæɡəˈriːəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. the teachings of Pythagoras and his followers, esp that the universe is essentially a manifestation of mathematical relationships

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Etymology

Origin of Pythagoreanism

First recorded in 1720–30; Pythagorean + -ism

Example Sentences

With the further development of the number-theory Pythagoreanism becomes entirely arbitrary and without principle.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

Early Pythagoreanism in S. Italy; its reappearance in last century b.c. under the influence of Posidonius, who combined Stoicism with Platonic Pythagoreanism.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

In a later lecture I shall have something to say of the 350revival of Pythagoreanism in the time of Cicero, and I need not now attempt to explain what such a revival might mean.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

Failure: that of Pythagoreanism six centuries before;—disaster: Caesar's conquest of Gaul and destruction of the Mysteries there.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

In Greece, Pythagoreanism and Gnosticism are strange, and are felt as such by the natives.

From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Hopkins, Edward Washburn