Definitions for animism

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animism an·i·mism

Spelling: [an-uh-miz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈæn əˌmɪz əm/

Animism is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in animism (aiimmns).

Definitions for animism

noun

1. the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess souls.
2. the belief that natural objects have souls that may exist apart from their material bodies.
3. the doctrine that the soul is the principle of life and health.
4. belief in spiritual beings or agencies.

Origin of animism

1825-35; Latin anim(a) (see anima) + -ism

Examples for animism

Here we are, for once, just as far from naturism as from animism.

Fetishism, phallicism, animism, and tree- and serpent-worship were very common.

If you like you may call the whole process by the name of animism.

Were this all, indeed, it would be on the same foot with Magic and animism; but it is not all.

animism in this sense is undoubtedly the beginning of some at least of the great religions.

Dread of these leads to worship, fetichism, and animism, the beginning of religion.

In its essential elements it is a commingling of animism and ancestor-worship.

Magic has been cleverly defined as "the strategy of animism."

Now this is connected with the question of animism, preanimism, and dynanimism.

We may suppose that for him animism is but an episode in the history of human thought.