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Panpsychic

Panpsychism \Pan*psy"chism\, n. [See Pan-; Psychic.] The theory that all nature is psychical or has a psychical aspect; the theory that every particle of matter has a psychical character or aspect. -- Pan*psy"chic, a. -- Pan*psy"chist, n. -- Pan`psy*chis"tic, a.

Fechner affords a conspicuous instance of the idealistic tendency to mysterize nature in his panpsychicism, or that form of noumenal idealism which holds that the universe is a vast communion of spirits, souls of men, of animals, of plants, of earth and other planets, of the sun, all embraced as different members in the soul of the world.
--Encyc. Brit.

Usage examples of "panpsychic".

This is the standard panpsychic approach, which I find altogether unacceptable (even though, for convenience, I sometimes resort to that terminology).