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Definition of Atomism

1. Noun. (psychology) a theory that reduces all mental phenomena to simple elements (sensations and feelings) that form complex ideas by association.

2. Noun. (chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles. "The ancient Greek philosophers Democritus and Epicurus held atomic theories of the universe"

Definition of Atomism

1. n. The doctrine of atoms. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic.

Definition of Atomism

1. Noun. (philosophy) The ancient Greek theory that all matter is composed of very small indestructible and indivisible particles. ¹

2. Noun. (philosophy) The doctrine that society arises from individuals and that larger structures are unimportant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Atomism

1. the theory that the universe is composed of simple, indivisible, minute particles [n -S]

Medical Definition of Atomism

1. The doctrine of atoms. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic. Origin: Cf. F. Atomisme. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Atomism

atomically atomician atomicians atomicism atomicities atomicity atomics atomies atomisation atomise

atomised atomiser atomisers atomises atomising atomism (current term) atomisms atomist atomist theory atomistic

atomistic psychology atomistic theory atomistical atomistically atomists atomization atomizations atomize atomized atomizer

Literary usage of Atomism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"his disciple, is generally considered the father of atomism, as practically ... Gassendi tried to harmonize atomism with Christian teaching by postulating ..."

2. Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life by Wilhelm Max Wundt (1901)
"(d) Ethical atomism and the Psychological Theory of Substance. ... Psychical atomism, with its simple substances whose interaction is purely external and ..."

3. Symbolic Education: A Commentary on Froebel's "Mother Play," by Susan Elizabeth Blow (1895)
"Thus the age of scientific atomism was also an age of political atomism, reaching its climax in the French Revolution; of philosophic atomism as illustrated ..."

4. An Historical and Critical Dictionary by Pierre Bayle (1826)
"atomism. Almost all authors allow that the Grecian philosopher Leucippus, the place of whose birth is not agreed upon, was the inventor of the Atomical ..."

5. Problems of Life and Mind by George Henry Lewes (1875)
"atomism AND DYNAMISM. 77. This much premised, we proceed now to consider the ... Two great systems embrace all minor systems : atomism and Dynamism. ..."

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