Panpsychic

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Panpsychism \Pan*psy"chism\, 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. -- {Pan*psy"chic}, a. --
     {Pan*psy"chist}, n. -- {Pan`psy*chis"tic}, a.
  


           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.] Pansclavist
     Pansclavism
     Pansclavic