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animatism

noun

Etymology

From animate + -ism. Originally coined by British anthropologist Robert Marett to refer to "a belief in a generalized, impersonal power over which people have some measure of control".

  1. derived from animātus
  2. inherited from animate
  3. suffixed as animatism — “animate + ism”

Definitions

  1. The belief that everything is pervaded by a life force giving each inanimate object a…

    The belief that everything is pervaded by a life force giving each inanimate object a consciousness or personality, but not a soul as in animism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for animatism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA