animastic

English

Etymology

From Latin animus (“mind”) +‎ -astic.

Adjective

animastic (comparative more animastic, superlative most animastic)

1. (rare) Pertaining to or possessing an animate nonphysical nature; having a mental or spiritual nature.
   • 1816, Thomas Taylor, “A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries,”, in The Pamphleteer, volume 8, number 15, page 66:

     But we employ fables in an animastic mode, when we contemplate the energies of the soul.

2. Relating to mind or spirit; spiritual.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

• animatics