Definition of "vitalist" []

• Of or espousing vitalism, the doctrine that life cannot be entirely reduced to physical and chemical factors (adjective)
• Someone who believes in vitalism, the doctrine that life cannot be entirely reduced to physical and chemical factors (noun)

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• "The term many such men favored - "vitalist" - speaks to the hypermasculinity (scenes of rape were popular "classical" subjects) that was the antithesis of those other libertines, the Bohemians (not to be confused with people from Bohemia)."
• "The ancients had a kind of vitalist idea of life and intelligence and all the god-concepts seem rooted in it. ofro"
• "The ancients had a kind of vitalist idea of life and intelligence and all the god-concepts seem rooted in it. normdoering"