| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Bergsonism |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Berg·son·ism |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b rg s -n z m |
| NOUN: | The philosophy of Henri Bergson, which asserts that the flow of time personally experienced is free and unrestricted rather than measured on a clock and contends that all living forms arise from a persisting natural force, the élan vital. | | OTHER FORMS: | Berg·soni·an (-s n -n) —ADJECTIVE & NOUN
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