NATURALISM

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A state of nature; conformity to nature.

2.
n.

The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will.