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Where does “monopsychism” come from?

monopsychism (English) comes from English Psyche, from English psychology, from French psychologie, from Latin psychologia, from Latin -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος, from Ancient Greek λέγω — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

monopsychism (English): The doctrine that there is only one immortal soul...

Definitions

  1. The doctrine that there is only one immortal soul...

Ancestry of “monopsychism”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishPsyche—
2EnglishpsychologyThe study of the human mind; The study of human...
3Frenchpsychologiepsychology
4Latinpsychologia—
5Latin-logia-logy; the study of
6Ancient Greek-λογίαBase for nouns denoting the study of something,...
7Ancient GreekλόγοςThat which is said: word, sentence, speech,...
8Ancient GreekλέγωI put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,...
9Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
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