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Webster 1913 Edition
Animism
1.
The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.
2.
The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter.
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Definition 2025
animism
animism
English
Noun
animism (plural animisms)
- A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
- A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.
- (dated) A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.
Coordinate terms
- (religions) religion; animism, Asatru, Bahá'í Faith, Buddhism, Cao Dai, Christianity, Confucianism, deism, Druidry, Eckankar, Heathenry, Hinduism, religious humanism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, LaVeyanism, Luciferianism, New Age, paganism, Raëlism, Rastafarianism, santería, Scientology, shamanism, Shinto, Sikhism, Spiritism, Taoism, Tengrism, Tenrikyo, Thelema, Unitarian Universalism, Wicca, Yoruba, Zoroastrianism (Category: en:Religion) [edit]
Translations
belief in spirits
