vitalism : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: vitalism	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for vitalism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vitalism n (philosophy) a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vitalism \Vi"tal*ism\, n. (Biol.) The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces.