n.
Pronunciation: ' fi-zi-k ə - ˌ li-z ə m
Function: noun
Date: 1931
: a thesis that the descriptive terms of scientific language are reducible to terms which refer to spatiotemporal things or events or to their properties
– phys · i · cal · ist \ -list \ noun or adjective
– phys · i · cal · is · tic \ ˌ fi-zi-k ə - ' lis-tik \ adjective