hylozoism

From hylo- +‎ Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) +‎ -ism.

hylozoism (countable and uncountable, plural hylozoisms)

1. A philosophical doctrine espousing that all or some material things possess life, or that all life is inseparable from matter.
   • a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia:

     […] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?

• panbiotism

• hylozoic

• pandeism
• panpsychism
• pantheism
• panvitalism