Associations to the word «Animism»

Wiktionary

ANIMISM, noun. A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
ANIMISM, noun. A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.
ANIMISM, noun. (dated) A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.

Dictionary definition

ANIMISM, noun. The doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls; "animism is common among primitive peoples".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope