n. Philosophy
- The view in metaphysics that reality is a unified whole and that all existing things can be ascribed to or described by a single concept or system.
- The doctrine that mind and matter are formed from, or reducible to, the same ultimate substance or principle of being.
monistic mo·nis'tic (mō-nĭs'tĭk, mŏ-) adj.
monistically mo·nis'ti·cal·ly adv.
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