hylopathism means the belief that all matter is sentient in some form. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “hylopathism” is a great word
HYLOPATHISM — [Noun] The philosophical doctrine that all matter possesses an inherent capacity for sensation or rudimentary sentience. From the Greek hylo- ("wood, matter") and path- (from πάσχειν, paskhein, "to experience, feel, or suffer") + the suffix -ism ("doctrine, principle"). First attested in 1864. Unlike hylozoism, which grants matter a vague vitality, or panpsychism, which posits a more abstract, universal mind-stuff, hylopathism insists on a direct, felt experience within substance itself. It is the latent flinch in granite under the geologist’s hammer, the dull ache of iron as it rusts, and the patient, mineral yearning of a cliff face weathering grain by grain. The world is not a machine, but one vast, suffering nerve.
Etymology
From hylo- (“wood, matter”) + πᾰ́σχειν (pắskhein, “to experience, to feel, to suffer”) + -ism.
noun
- The belief that all matter is sentient in some form.“It is certainly true that Whitehead's philosophy could be seen as a form of panexperientialism, in that all of reality is constituted as experience, and perhaps even hylopathism, where all matter is viewed as being sentient (insofar as it experiences) and gives rise to higher-order subjective experiences […]”