Animism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The belief in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects and phenomena.
  • n. The belief in the existence of spiritual beings that are separable or separate from bodies.
  • n. The hypothesis holding that an immaterial force animates the universe.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
  • n. A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.
  • n. A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.
  • n. The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The hypothesis, original with Pythagoras and Plato, of a force (anima mundi, or soul of the world) immaterial but inseparable from matter, and giving to matter its form and movements.
  • n. The theory of vital action and of disease propounded by the German chemist G. E. Stahl (1660–1734); the theory that the soul (anima) is the vital principle, the source of both the normal and the abnormal phenomena of life.
  • n. The general conception of or the belief in souls and other spiritual beings; the explanation of all the phenomena in nature not due to obvious material causes by attributing them to spiritual agency.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls
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