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animism
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As a noun, animism means a belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
Meanings of animism
4 meaningsnoun
A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.
The doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls
“animism is common among primitive peoples”
Older and rare meanings (1)
datedA doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.
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