Associations to the word «Animism»
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
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
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.