panzoism UK /pænˈzəʊɪzəm/US /pænˈzoʊɪzəm/ noun1 •(no longer used, rare) The belief that the entire universe is a living thing, or is suffused with life.He holds that there is a pangenesis or panzoism in all animated being. Now, what is this but the "life" of the old zoologists whom they so ridicule? — 1875