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chemism : 1. (in chemistry) the force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship.

2. (in philosophy) is a term in the Hegelian philosophy for the "mutual attraction, interpenetration, and neutralisation of independent individuals which unite to form a whole."

In his Science of Logic, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel wrote:

"Chemism constitutes in objectivity as a whole, the moment of judgment, of the difference that has become objective, and of the process. Since it already begins with determinateness and positedness and the chemical object is at the same time an objective totality, its immediate course is simple and is completely determined by its presupposition."

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) and Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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