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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Physicism

/(fĭz"ĭ*sĭz'm)/ · Phys·i·cism · IPA
01 n. The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.
  1. 1.
    The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.
    “Anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science.” Huxley.