Home › Words › S › spermismspermismspermism means the belief, held by spermists, that the male sperm holds the whole germ of the future animal.EtymologyFrom sperm + -ism.nounThe belief, held by spermists, that the male sperm holds the whole germ of the future animal.e.g.“It is tempting to dismiss spermism as a quaint curiosity in the history of ideas, on a par, say, with believing that the Earth is flat.” — 2001, David M Friedman, A Mind of its Own, Robert Hale, published 2009, page 62:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.spermatism 75% match — Spermism. vs spermism →spermatist 71% match — Synonym of spermist. vs spermism →spermoplasm 60% match — The cytoplasm of spermatozoa vs spermism →seminism 59% match — The old theory that the newly created being is formed by the mixture of the seed of the male with the supposed seed of the female. vs spermism →spermic 59% match — Of or pertaining to sperm. vs spermism →spermospore 58% match — The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids. vs spermism →panspermatism 54% match — The obsolete theory that germs are omnipresent. vs spermism →spermatology 54% match — The scientific study of sperm. vs spermism →