Monism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Philosophy The view in metaphysics that reality is a unified whole and that all existing things can be ascribed to or described by a single concept or system.
  • n. Philosophy The doctrine that mind and matter are formed from, or reducible to, the same ultimate substance or principle of being.
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  • n. The doctrine of the oneness and unity of reality, despite the appearance of diversity in the world.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; -- the opposite of dualism.
  • n. See Monogenesis, 1.
  • n. The doctrine that the universe is an organized unitary being or total self-inclusive structure.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Any system of thought which seeks to deduce all the varied phenomena of both the physical and spiritual worlds from a single principle; specifically, the metaphysical doctrine that there is but one substance, either mind (idealism) or matter (materialism), or a substance that is neither mind nor matter, but is the substantial ground of both: opposed to dualism.
  • n. Any theory or system which attempts to explain many heterogeneous phenomena by a single principle.
  • n. In biology, same as monogenesis .
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element
    • Antonym
    dualism   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ism    philosophy    school of thought    doctrine    philosophical system   
    Variant
    monogenesis   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    theism    unitism    henism   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bodhicitta    polytheism    panentheism    thea    perfectibility   
     
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