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Meaning of "monism" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MONISM

From Greek monos single + -ism.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MONISM

monism  [ˈmɒnɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MONISM

noun
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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Monism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MONISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Monism

Monism is the philosophical view that a variety of existing things can be explained in terms of a single reality or substance. The wide definition states that all existing things go back to a source which is distinct from them. A commonly-used, restricted definition of monism asserts the presence of a unifying substance or essence. One must distinguish "stuff monism" from "thing monism". According to stuff monism there is only one kind of stuff, although there may be many things made out of this stuff. According to thing-monism there exists strictly speaking only a single thing, which can only be artificially and arbitrarily divided into many things. In contrast to monism, are metaphysical dualism and metaphysical pluralism. The term monism originated from Western philosophy, and has often been applied to various religions.

Definition of monism in the English dictionary

The definition of monism in the dictionary is the epistemological theory that the object and datum of consciousness are identical. Other definition of monism is the attempt to explain anything in terms of one principle only.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MONISM


antagonism
ænˈtæɡəˌnɪzəm
communism
ˈkɒmjʊˌnɪzəm
creationism
kriːˈeɪʃəˌnɪzəm
donnism
ˈdɒnɪzəm
equestrianism
ɪˈkwɛstrɪənɪzəm
exhibitionism
ˌɛksɪˈbɪʃəˌnɪzəm
expressionism
ɪkˈsprɛʃəˌnɪzəm
feminism
ˈfɛmɪˌnɪzəm
hedonism
ˈhiːdəˌnɪzəm
humanism
ˈhjuːməˌnɪzəm
impressionism
ɪmˈprɛʃəˌnɪzəm
isolationism
ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃəˌnɪzəm
mechanism
ˈmɛkəˌnɪzəm
modernism
ˈmɒdəˌnɪzəm
organism
ˈɔːɡəˌnɪzəm
plutonism
ˈpluːtɒnɪzəm
post-modernism
ˌpəʊstˈmɒdənɪzəm
urbanism
ˈɜːbəˌnɪzəm
vegetarianism
ˌvɛdʒɪˈtɛərɪəˌnɪzəm
Zionism
ˈzaɪəˌnɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MONISM

monial
monicker
monied
monies
moniker
monilia
monilial
moniliasis
moniliform
monist
monistic
monistical
monistically
monition
monitive
monitor
monitorial
monitorially
monitories
monitoring

WORDS THAT END LIKE MONISM

abolitionism
abstract expressionism
aldosteronism
anachronism
constructionism
evolutionism
Exchange Rate Mechanism
expansionism
interactionism
interventionism
Mormonism
obstructionism
Parkinsonism
perfectionism
Platonism
protectionism
reductionism
revisionism
synchronism
trade unionism
unionism

Synonyms and antonyms of monism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «monism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MONISM

Find out the translation of monism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of monism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «monism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

一元论
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

monismo
570 millions of speakers

English

monism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वेदांत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

واحديه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

монизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

monismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অদ্বৈতবাদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

monisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Monisme
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Monismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

一元論
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

일원론
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Monisme
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhứt nguyên luận
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொருண்மை வாதம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Monism
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bircilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

monismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

monizm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

монізм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

monism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μονισμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

monisme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

monism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

monisme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of monism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MONISM»

The term «monism» is regularly used and occupies the 72.596 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MONISM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «monism» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «monism» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about monism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONISM»

Discover the use of monism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to monism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Monism
Matjaz Potrc Blobjectivist Monism Repulsive monism: One dynamic BLOB and no principles "One BLOB no principles! One BLOB no principles!" (The crowd) Thesis of monism affirms the existence of one. Dynamics of one underlies the ...
Andreas Bächli, Klaus Petrus, 2003
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Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and ...
First published in 1989, Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting is required reading for Christian philosophers, theologians, psychologists, and students interested in the mind-body question.
John W. Cooper, 2000
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Aristotle and Plotinus on the Intellect: Monism and Dualism ...
The scope of this book is to revisit the ancient Aristotelian and Plotinian philosophical and metaphysical problem of dualism and monism with respect to the first principle.
Mark J. Nyvlt, 2012
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Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology
Utilizing hitherto unexplored material that has become available only after the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, this book examines the Monist philosophy of the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, and its role in stimulating the birth of Fascist ...
Daniel Gasman, 1998
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Monism: Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the History of a ...
Summary The purpose of this introductory chapter has been to demonstrate how monism connected natural science with the social tensions and religious questions of its century. Haeckel was acutely aware of this connection. In The Riddle of ...
Todd H. Weir, 2012
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Thomas Hardy, Monism and the Carnival Tradition: The One and ...
As monism came to have a history, its scientific origins in the nineteenth century could be traced to materialism or the earlier of two distinct and very different forms of naturalism, the one that allied itself with materialism. In Germany naturalism ...
G. Glen Wickens, 2002
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The Legacy of Parmenides: Eleatic Monism and Later ...
monism, claims that there is only one thing or item in the universe. This is the monism that has traditionally been attributed to Parmenides and to Melissus.7 It is not clear whether or not numerical monism also admits the possibility that the ...
Patricia Curd, 1998
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Christ in Creation and Ethical Monism
Augustus Hopkins Strong. CONTENTS Christ in Creation 1-15 God creates only through Christ, 2. Christ's creator- ship an antidote to subjective idealism, 3 ; and to pantheism, 4; with its denial of divine consciousness and will, 5. Conception of  ...
Augustus Hopkins Strong, 1899
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Monism?: Thoughts Suggested by Professor Haeckel's Book, ...
Thoughts Suggested by Professor Haeckel's Book, "The Riddle of the Universe" S. Ph Marcus. by cold. Solid bodies shrink under its influence, occupying less space as they become denser. 23. The spaces between the joints of steel rails are ...
S. Ph Marcus, 1907
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Haeckel's monism false: an examination of 'The riddle of the ...
Monism may — or may not — be the philosophy of the future. But there is neither necessity nor likelihood that it will be a monism of the type we are considering. The opinion of Haeckel that ' a weak hypothesis is always better than none,' 1 ...
Frank Ballard, 1906

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term monism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Vallabhacharya, founder of the Vaishnavite cult
Vallabhacharya was the exponent of pure non-dualism or Monism and his view of philosophy is called Shuddadvaita. He declares, as Dr. «Free Press Journal, Jul 15»
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Paganism for Beginners: Controversies
Monism is the view that there is a single underlying energy in the universe. Polytheism is the view that there are many deities. Quite often ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
3
A culture shattered: Part 4 of 5—Legitimizing the antithesis (2000s)
Liberal monism prevailed. When two heterosexual women declined a lesbian as their roommate, the Madison Equal Opportunities Commission ... «Enter Stage Right, Jun 15»
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A Culture Shattered: Part 4
Liberal monism prevailed. When two heterosexual women declined a lesbian as their roommate, the Madison Equal Opportunities Commission ... «Patriot Post, Jun 15»
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All the Happy Workers
Whether it is via the idea of utility, energy, value, or emotion, the project of monism always involves this form of simplification. A monistic theory ... «Yahoo News, Jun 15»
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Washington-area obituaries of note
He was a Mason and a member of the Self-Revelation Church of Absolute Monism in Bethesda. Sarah Tatum, homemaker. Sarah Tatum, 91, a ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
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An interview with the Editor of The Monist
In 1887 Hegeler launched Open Court Publishing Company with the goal of propagating Ernst Haeckel's monism as an alternative to traditional ... «OUPblog, May 15»
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Review of Richard Sakwa's 'Frontline Ukraine'
Therefore, this could be described as an anti-Ukrainian 'monism' developed as a response to the Russophobic 'monism' omnipresent in Kiev. «International Policy Digest, May 15»
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Catholic bishop tells women to abstain from yoga
“The practice of yoga is very ancient and rooted in theological monism -- that we are all one being ... that the universe is one and oneness is ... «Lincoln Journal Star, May 15»
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Alexander Hall, SPU, By Joel Mabel, via Wikimedia Commons
... define, in the simplest terms possible, what the differences between monotheism, polytheism (hard and soft), monism, and henotheism were. «Patheos, May 15»

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