vitalism

English

Etymology

vital +‎ -ism

Noun

vitalism (countable and uncountable, plural vitalisms)

The doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained scientifically.

Translations

doctrine that life involves a "vital force"

Catalan: vitalisme m
Danish: vitalisme c
Dutch: vitalisme (nl) n
Esperanto: vitalismo (eo)
Finnish: vitalismi
French: vitalisme (fr) m
Galician: vitalismo m
German: Vitalismus (de) m
Greek: βιταλισμός (el) m (vitalismós)
Ido: vitalismo (io)
Italian: vitalismo (it) m

Norwegian:
Bokmål: vitalisme m

Nynorsk: vitalisme m
Polish: witalizm m
Portuguese: vitalismo m
Russian: витали́зм (ru) m (vitalízm)
Spanish: vitalismo (es) m
Swedish: vitalism (sv) c
Ukrainian: віталізм m (vitalízm)
Volapük: lifälim

See also

élan vital

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