Associations to the word «Animism»
Noun
- Shamanism
- Hinduism
- Buddhism
- Mana
- Frazer
- Confucianism
- Belief
- Worldview
- Worship
- Ancestor
- Religion
- Tanya
- Anthropology
- Adherent
- Primitive
- Wat
- Islam
- Christianity
- Anthropologist
- Magic
- Degeneration
- Supernatural
- Sigmund
- Buddhist
- Defi
- Divination
- Freud
- Attribution
- Veneration
- Descartes
- Mythology
- Guiana
- Cosmology
- Deity
- Spirit
- Afterlife
- Guthrie
- Universal
- Scribe
- Feminism
- Superstition
- Shaman
- Pilgrimage
- Apocalypse
- Spiritual
- Cognition
- Ism
- Soul
- Phenomenon
- Religious
- Georg
- Cult
- Comte
- Ritual
- Theory
- Nat
- Myanmar
- Ernst
- Evolution
- Entity
- Analogy
- Practice
- Notion
- Concept
- Animal
Adjective
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
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.