Definition of "chemism" []

• Chemical attraction (noun)

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• "He always carried a paper bag of them in his pocket, and he had a way of saying frequently that the chemism of his nature demanded such fare."
• "He says that the question hinges on whether “chemical matter is not so distinctively different in the way of complexity from physical matter that ˜chemism™ is properly a new quality emerging from physical existence” (p. 61)."
• "Within her was a chemism of dreams which somehow counteracted all they had to say."