Associations to the word «Spiritism»

Wiktionary

SPIRITISM, proper noun. A philosophical doctrine, established in France in the mid nineteenth century, postulating that humans are essentially immortal spirits that temporarily inhabit physical bodies, and may have influence on the physical world.
SPIRITISM, noun. The belief that the dead communicate with the living, especially through a medium having special powers.

Dictionary definition

SPIRITISM, noun. Concern with things of the spirit.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke