Chemism is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 121 anagrams from letters in chemism (cehimms).
1850-55; chem- + -ism, modeled on French chimisme, equivalent to chim(ie) chemistry + -isme -ism
For the rest, the phrase "sexual metabolism" or "chemism of sexuality" is a chapter-head without content.
Without this, chemism and mechanism would work together to quite other ends.
There is no life without chemism, but there is chemism without life.
If his chemism could only give him the mother-principle also!