pansensism

Meaning

Noun

  • The closely allied forms of panpsychism espoused by the Italian Renaissance philosophers Bernardino Telesio (1509–1588) and Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639), in which all things are capable of perception or sensation.

Origin

  • First attested in 1956; formed as pan- + -sense. Compare omnisensuality and panæsthetism.

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