physicalism

Meaning

Noun

• A philosophical position holding that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; that is, that there are no kinds of things other than physical things, which all are of logically procedural nature based on fundamental laws at their deepest level of causality.

Related

Similar words

• materialism
• philosophical materialism

Opposite words

• idealism

Broader meaning words

• monism
• realism

Origin

• physical + -ism