athanatism

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ thanato- +‎ -ism.

Noun

athanatism (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) immortality of the soul
    • 1904, Ernst Haeckel, Wonders of life, page 66:
      But its roots were destroyed when Copernicus refuted the geocentric theory in 1545; and athanatism became quite untenable when Darwin shattered the dogma of anthropocentricism.

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