transformism

From transform +‎ -ism.

transformism (countable and uncountable, plural transformisms)

1. (evolutionary theory) The doctrine that living organisms have evolved from previously existing forms of living matter.

   Antonym: abiogenesis

   • 1893, Charles Letourneau, Sociology Based Upon Ethnography, page 552:

     In a word, the embryology and the taxinomy of the animal kinds, enlightened by the doctrine of transformism, show to us the slow acquisition of conscient life in the animal kingdom.

2. (politics) Synonym of trasformismo.

• transformist
• transformistic

Borrowed from French transformisme.

transformism n (uncountable)

1. transformism