vitalism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained scientifically.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Theories and philosophies of vitalism are concerned with the distinction between life and non-life in some form. Given this emphasis, vitalism always has political stakes: where the boundary between life and non-life is drawn is, as theorists of biopolitics have shown, a supremely political matter […] Historically, vitalism has been associated with conservatism and fascism in ways that are sometimes genealogically defensible, sometimes only with difficulty or not at all."
- "It seems to me that in vitalism, there are people who are anti-Christian, like Bronze Age Pervert, like the Nazis."
Etymology
Etymology tree English vital Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English vitalism From vital + -ism.