monism.

A view holding that reality or a domain has one fundamental principle or kind.

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Words that belong together

• philosophical monism
• forms of monism

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Philosophical monism treated the apparent divisions as expressions of one underlying reality.

Different forms of monism disagreed about the nature of that basis.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: uncommon.