Definitions for "Hylozoism"
The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable.
a theory of mind-matter interrelation that regards all matter as alive. One of the four types of ?????? . (Cf. opposite.)
Hylozoism is the philosophical doctrine that all or some material things possess life, or that all life is inseparable from matter. The English term was introduced by Ralph Cudworth in 1678.