animism

Significado (Inglés)

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

Conceptos

animismo

Sinónimos

nature worship

hylozoism

naturism

heathenism

personification

polytheism

pantheism

Traducciones

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ανιμισμός

animizm

canlıcılık

attribution d’une âme aux objects inanimés

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animistische Ausdrucksweise

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Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈænɪmɪzəm/

Etimología (Inglés)

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.