Finalisms is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 282 anagrams from letters in finalisms (afiilmnss).
First recorded in 1905-10; final + -ism
Especially (and this is the point on which finalism has been most seriously mistaken) harmony is rather behind us than before.
finalism has shrunk to the point of never embracing more than one living being at a time.
M. Bergson's form of finalism depends upon his conception of life.
Again, in opposition to finalism he urges the variety of living forms.
The point in Bergson's system which seems least in harmony with theistic belief is his criticism and rejection of finalism.
Yet finalism is not, like mechanism, a doctrine with fixed rigid outlines.
Mechanism and finalism agree in taking account only of the bright nucleus shining in the centre.
Mechanism and finalism are therefore, here, only external views of our conduct.
But both mechanism and finalism would leave on one side the movement, which is reality itself.
The theory we shall put forward in this book will therefore necessarily partake of finalism to a certain extent.