Associations to the word «Animatism»

Wiktionary

ANIMATISM, noun. (anthropology) The belief that everything is pervaded with a life-force giving each inanimate object a consciousness or personality, but not a soul as in animism.

Dictionary definition

ANIMATISM, noun. The attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones.

Wise words

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