Vitalism
- n. The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.