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Anatomise vs Anatomism - What's the difference?

anatomise | anatomism |

As a verb anatomise

is to pull apart and examine; scrutinise carefully.

As a noun anatomism is

the application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.

anatomise

English

Verb

(anatomis)
  • To pull apart and examine; scrutinise carefully.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles Kingsley, title=Two Years Ago, Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I am not one of those who anatomise their own married happiness for the edification of the whole public, and make fame, if not money, out of their own wives' hearts." " }}

    anatomism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
    • The stretched and vivid anatomism of their great figure painters.'' — ''The London Spectator .
  • The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.
    • (Webster 1913)