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English
Etymology
From Latin ovum (“egg”) + -ism.
Noun
ovism (uncountable)
- (now historical) The belief that the ovum holds all material needed for the development of the embryo.
2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 238:Above all, ovism seems to us utterly impossible: how could every human being that ever existed or ever will exist be contained, fully formed, within Eve's ovaries?
Related terms
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French ovisme.
Noun
ovism n (uncountable)
- ovism
Declension
declension of ovism (singular only)
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singular
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indefinite articulation
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definite articulation
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(un) ovism
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ovismul
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(unui) ovism
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ovismului
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ovismule
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