acosmism

Definition

A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.

Etymology

From a- + Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “universe”) + -ism.

Example Sentences

• ""[Spinoza's] system would have to be designated not an 'atheism' but instead the reverse, an 'acosmism', since according to this philosophy there is actually no world at all in the sense of something positively being.""