spermism
nounEtymology From sperm + -ism.
1
The belief, held by spermists, that the male sperm holds the whole germ of the future animal.
- It is tempting to dismiss spermism as a quaint curiosity in the history of ideas, on a par, say, with believing that the Earth is flat.2001, David M Friedman, A Mind of its Own, Robert Hale, published 2009, page 62: