animism

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈænɪmɪzəm/

Noun

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.

Coordinate terms

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  • Cao Dai
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  • deism
  • Druidry
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  • Kimbanguism
  • Odinism
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  • Rastafarianism
  • Rodnovery
  • Romuva
  • Samaritanism
  • Sanamahism
  • Shinto
  • Sikhism
  • Taoism
  • Tengrism
  • Thelema
  • Unitarian Universalism
  • Wicca
  • Yahwism
  • Yazidism
  • Yoruba
  • Zoroastrianism

Translations

belief in spirits

• Afrikaans: animisme
• Arabic: أرواحية
• Catalan: animisme m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 泛靈論 / 泛灵论 (faan⁶ ling⁴ leon⁶), 泛靈信仰 / 泛灵信仰 (faan⁶ ling⁴ seon³ joeng⁵), 萬物有靈論 / 万物有灵论 (maan⁶ mat⁶ jau⁵ ling⁴ leon⁶)

  Mandarin: 泛靈論 / 泛灵论 (zh) (fànlínglùn), 泛靈信仰 / 泛灵信仰 (fànlíng xìnyǎng), 萬物有靈論 / 万物有灵论 (zh) (wànwù-yǒulínglùn)

• Finnish: animismi (fi)
• French: animisme (fr) m
• German: Animismus (de) m
• Greek: ανιμισμός (el) m (animismós)
• Indonesian: animisme (id)
• Irish: anamachas m
• Japanese: アニミズム (ja) (animizumu), 汎霊説 (はんれいせつ, hanrei setsu), 精霊信仰 (せいれいしんこう, seirei shinkō), 地霊信仰 (ちれいしんこう, chirei shinkō)
• Khmer: វិញ្ញាណនិយម (vi nhean ni yum), ព្រលឹងនិយម (km) (pro lueng ni yum)
• Korean: 정령숭배(精靈崇拜) (jeongnyeongsungbae), 정령신앙(精靈信仰) (jeongnyeongsinang)
• Polish: animizm (pl)
• Portuguese: animismo (pt) m
• Romanian: animism (ro) n
• Russian: аними́зм (ru) m (animízm)
• Swedish: animism (sv) c
• Turkish: canlıcılık (tr)

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• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} animismo

See also

• animism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Minamis

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French animisme.

Noun

animism n (uncountable)

1. animism

Declension

Declension of animism

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	animism	animismul
genitive-dative	animism	animismului
vocative	animismule

Related terms

• animist

Further reading

• animism in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Noun

animism c (uncountable)

1. animism