Associations to the word «Vitalism»

Wiktionary

VITALISM, noun. The doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained scientifically.

Dictionary definition

VITALISM, noun. (philosophy) a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates