Avicennism

noun

Av·​i·​cen·​nism

ˌavə̇ˈseˌnizəm

plural -s

: the doctrines of the philosopher Avicenna who taught a theory of emanation and a doctrine widely accepted in the middle ages that universals exist in rebus as the general characters of particulars but ante res only in the mind of God and post res only as abstractions in the human mind

Word History

Etymology

Avicenna + English -ism

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