animism

From 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈænɪmɪzəm/

animism (countable and uncountable, plural animisms)

1. A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
   • 2015, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 3126: Been A While I Guess:

     "I'm not entirely comfortable with the level of animism you and Hanners display towards that thing."

2. A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.
3. (dated) A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.

• (religions) religion; agnosticism,‎ Asatru,‎ atheism,‎ Ayyavazhi,‎ Baháʼí Faith,‎ Bon,‎ Buddhism,‎ Cao Dai,‎ Cheondoism,‎ Christianity,‎ deism,‎ Druidry,‎ Druze,‎ Eckankar,‎ Heathenry,‎ Hinduism,‎ Islam,‎ Jainism,‎ Jediism,‎ Judaism,‎ Kimbanguism,‎ Odinism,‎ paganism,‎ Pastafarianism,‎ Raëlism,‎ Rastafarianism,‎ Rodnovery,‎ Romuva,‎ Samaritanism,‎ Sanamahism,‎ Shinto,‎ Sikhism,‎ Taoism,‎ Tengrism,‎ Thelema,‎ Unitarian Universalism,‎ Wicca,‎ Yahwism,‎ Yazidism,‎ Yoruba,‎ Zoroastrianism ^{(Category: en:Religion)}

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Borrowed from French animisme.

animism n (uncountable)

1. animism