biomorphismn.

1888 J. Martineau Study Relig. I. ii. i. 337 To mark the differentia of these three theories we may call them respectively Anthropomorphism, Biomorphism, and Hylomorphism.

1900 Mind Jan. 107 Biomorphism consists in animating all objects.

1903 Princeton Theol Rev. Oct. 643 It would be difficult on this view to find place for the pure supernaturalism of the Christian idea of God, and we cannot see why biomorphism is so much preferable to anthropomorphism.

1954 M. C. Swabey Judgment of Hist. v. 109 The Darwinian hypothesis suitably disguised inspires a cosmic biomorphism.

1999 S. V. Chebanov in P. Koslowski Sociobiol. & Bioecon. iii. vi. 154 In the European tradition, involving the Biblical idea of humans as sovereign, biomorphism is not proper.

1935 G. Grigson Arts To-day 107 Representation, in all its degrees from the realism of Courbet to the biomorphism of Miró.

1940 Parnassus 12 42/1 In his movement toward space projection, first by round forms and then by planes, Hélion reflects influences from Picasso's biomorphism and from Léger's machine esthetic.

1969 Art Jrnl. 28 405/3 Biomorphism, which recalls Arp, Miro, Brancusi to some extent, and certainly Henry Moore, is part of the common language of these artists.

1975 L. Alloway Topics in Amer. Art since 1945 18 Biomorphism, with its invention of analogies of human forms in nature and other organisms, has wide connections, for example, with Art Nouveau.

2005 Daily Tel. 19 Dec. 5/1 Ere Barry, you interested in modern art? Specifically biomorphism combining abstraction and representation a la Henry Moore—using his reclining figure motif, obviously.