physicism

The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.

Noun

  1. The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.
    • Anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science. - 1870, Thomas Henry Huxley, The scientific aspects of positivism:

Origin

From physic + -ism.