Spiritualism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The belief that the dead communicate with the living, as through a medium.
  • n. The practices or doctrines of those holding such a belief.
  • n. A philosophy, doctrine, or religion emphasizing the spiritual aspect of being.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A philosophic doctrine, opposing materialism, that claims transcendency of the divine being, the altogether spiritual character of reality and the value of inwardness of consciousness.
  • n. A belief that the dead communicate with the living through a medium having special powers.
  • n. The quality or state of being spiritual.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality or state of being spiritual.
  • n. The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul -- that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by Fichte.
  • n. A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rappng, or during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism; the doctrines and practices of spiritualists.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of being spiritual; spiritual character.
  • n. In philosophy, the doctrine of the existence of spirit as distinct from matter, or as the only reality: opposed to materialism.
  • n. The belief that disembodied spirits can and do communicate with the living, especially through the agency of a person particularly susceptible to spiritualistic influences, called a medium; also, the various doctrines and theories, collectively, founded upon this belief.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. concern with things of the spirit
  • n. the belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium)
  • n. (theology) any doctrine that asserts the separate existence of God
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    mesmerism    mysticism    occultism    astrology    theosophy