The Collaborative International Dictionary
Psychism \Psy"chism\, n. [Cf. F. psychisme.] (Philos.)
The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally
diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the
difference in their actions being due to the difference of
the individual organizations.
--Fleming.
Wiktionary
n. (context philosophy English) The old doctrine that there is a fluid universally diffused, and equally animate all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations.
Usage examples of "psychism".
Clairvoyance, psychism, telepathy, even the ability to heal or perform miracles automatically comes to such practitioners as they begin to perceive, intuitively and almost unconsciously at first, how the patterns are put together, related and integrated.
For instance, if it is claimed in the name of supernaturalism and psychism that a man is unhappy because he is vicious, it is equivalent to making a one-sided statement.
He took advantage of the fact that Tibet is closed territory and that Tibetan monks are naturally secretive and predisposed to so-called psychism and anything of a super-normal nature.
The brief surge of furious psychism had left her feeling desolate, and her threat to Sashka now seemed a hollow sham.
Burton reminded himself that his reputation for psychism had been built up by himself and that he was half charlatan.