noun
- Plural of plenism; philosophical doctrines or positions asserting the fullness, completeness, or totality of being or existence.
Usage: philosophy; formal; rare
Examples
- Various plenisms in medieval philosophy debated whether being is fundamentally complete or infinite.
- The professor discussed different plenisms as responses to questions about the nature of existence.
- Plenisms contrast with nihilistic or minimalist views about what exists.