n. [ Mono- + Gr. &unr_; soul. ] The doctrine that there is but one immortal soul or intellect with which all men are endowed. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Pan-; Psychic. ] The theory that all nature is psychical or has a psychical aspect; the theory that every particle of matter has a psychical character or aspect. --
Fechner affords a conspicuous instance of the idealistic tendency to mysterize nature in his panpsychicism, or that form of noumenal idealism which holds that the universe is a vast communion of spirits, souls of men, of animals, of plants, of earth and other planets, of the sun, all embraced as different members in the soul of the world. Encyc. Brit. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
n. [ Cf. F. psychisme. ] (Philos.) The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations. Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]