spiritism

See also: Spiritism

English

Etymology

spirit +‎ -ism

In Allan Kardec's 1857 book The Spirits Book (Le Livre des Esprits in original French), the terms spiritism and spiritualism are defined.

Noun

spiritism (countable and uncountable, plural spiritisms)

Kardecism

Hypernyms

spiritualism

Translations

Kardecism, a subset of spiritualism

Finnish: spiritismi (fi)
Portuguese: espiritismo (pt) m

Tagalog: batlaya-kuro, pagkamakabatlaya

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