animism.
A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
Meaning & usage
A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.
A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.
Where this word comes from
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.
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