animism

English

Etymology

anima +‎ -ism, from Latin anima (“life", "breath", "soul”). Dated sense from German Animismus, coined c. 1720 by physicist/chemist Georg Ernst Stahl (1660-1734) See anima mundi.

Noun

animism (countable and uncountable, plural animisms)

A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.
(dated) A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.

Coordinate terms

(religions) religion; Bahá'í Faith,‎ Buddhism,‎ Cao Dai,‎ Christianity,‎ Confucianism,‎ deism,‎ Druidry,‎ Eckankar,‎ Heathenry,‎ Hinduism,‎ Islam,‎ Jainism,‎ Judaism,‎ Kimbanguism,‎ paganism,‎ Raëlism,‎ Rastafarianism,‎ Shinto,‎ Sikhism,‎ Taoism,‎ Thelema,‎ Unitarian Universalism,‎ Wicca,‎ Yoruba,‎ Zoroastrianism ^{(Category: en:Religion)} ^[edit]

Translations

belief in spirits

Catalan: animisme m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 泛靈論, 泛灵论 (faan⁶ ling⁴ leon⁶), 泛靈信仰, 泛灵信仰 (faan⁶ ling⁴ seon³ joeng⁵), 萬物有靈論, 万物有灵论 (maan⁶ mat⁶ jau⁵ ling⁴ leon⁶)

Mandarin: 泛靈論 (zh), 泛灵论 (zh) (fànlínglùn), 泛靈信仰, 泛灵信仰 (fànlíng xìnyǎng), 萬物有靈論 (zh), 万物有灵论 (zh) (wànwù-yǒulínglùn)
Finnish: animismi (fi)
French: animisme (fr) m
German: Animismus (de) m

Greek: ανιμισμός (el) m (animismós)
Irish: anamachas m
Khmer: វិញ្ញាណនិយម (vi nhean ni yum), ព្រលឹងនិយម (km) (pro lueng ni yum)
Polish: animizm (pl)
Portuguese: animismo (pt) m
Romanian: animism (ro) n
Turkish: canlıcılık (tr)

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