panpsychism

Meanings

1. The belief that all matter is conscious in some form.
2. Synonym of panexperientialism, the particular form of panpsychism that holds experience but not cognition as universal.
3. A particular form of panpsychism.

Etymology

From pan- + psychism, a calque of German Panpsychismus (1874), from New Latin pampsychia coined by Francisco Patrizi in his 1591 Nova de Universis Philosophia, from Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-, “all”) + ψυχή (psukhḗ, “mind, life force, soul”) + -ία (-ía, “-ia: forming abstract nouns”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πάμψυχος (pámpsukhos, “in full life”) and Modern Greek παμψυχισμός (pampsychismós, “panpsychism”).