What is "hylopathism"

Hylopathism \Hy*lop"a*thism\, n. [Gr. ? matter + ?, ?, to suffer.] The doctrine that matter is sentient.
--Krauth-Fleming.

n. The doctrine that matter is sentient.

Hylopathism, in philosophy, is the belief that some or all matter is sentient or that properties of matter in general give rise to subjective experience. It is opposed to the assertion that consciousness results exclusively from properties of specific types of matter, e.g. brain tissue.