interanimate

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ animate

Pronunciation

• (adjective) IPA^(key): /ˌɪntəɹˈænɪmət/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˌɪntəɹˈænɪmeɪt/

Adjective

interanimate (not comparable)

1. Occurring as or involving interactions between separate consciousnesses.
   • 1995, Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination, page 183:

     Meanwhile, however, classicism had kept alive the imagination of an interanimate cosmos: of the land and the sea as gods and as comprising hosts of minor local deities; of humans as children of gods; of natural creatures as transformed humans (Daphne into laurel, Procne into swallow) or as transformable into human shape.

   • 2004, Morana Alač, Patrizia Violi, In the Beginning: Origins of Semiosis, page 118:

     Before going on to show the relationship of tactile-kinesthetic invariants and iconicity to analogical thinking, I would like to interpose a question alluded to earlier: how are new interanimate meanings minted?

   • 2010, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, The Roots of Morality, page 225:

     Deepened understandings of responsivity, of its basis in both comsigns and interchangeability, and of the basis of comsigns and interchangeability in species-specific kinetic/tactile-kinesthetic invariants, provide the grounds for elucidating the interanimate phenomenon of empathy.

   • 2017, Benjamin Bateman, The Modernist Art of Queer Survival:

     The beauty of the queer invitation, Forster discovers, lies in its unconventional temporality, which permits delays, demurrals, and even extended deferrals, but which nonetheless supplies a lifeline for interanimate collaborations that interrupt the self's consolidation into an obedient disciple of heterosexuality.

2. Mutually affecting; tending to interanimate.
   • 1992, Linda Bannister, Writing Apprehension and Anti-writing, page 2:

     If we agree with Pat Hartwell's statement that thinking and writing are interanimate, then we cannot help but address thinking when we speak of writing .

   • 1994, George Kalamaras, Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension, page 26:

     The interaction of discourses is dynamic, interdependent, "interanimate," and "interilluminating."

   • 2006, Heather Lea Wainwright, New Paradigms in Aesthetics: The Challenge of Environmental Art, page 46:

     In chapter five, the applied chapter, I show how ecological and prima facie formalist and aesthetic values are interanimate and therefore inseparable.

Verb

interanimate (third-person singular simple present interanimates, present participle interanimating, simple past and past participle interanimated)

1. To animate or inspire mutually.
   • a. 1631, John Donne, The Ecstasy:

     When love, with another so
     Interanimates two souls

   • 1996, Jennifer L. Troutner, Language, Culture, and Politics: English in China, 1840s-1990s, page 45:

     These voices compete, interanimate (penetrate and inform), and change over time.

   • 2006, Jos van den Linden, Peter Renshaw, Dialogic Learning, page 92:

     The third space enables new meanings to be generated as the diverse voices of the official script and unofficial counterscript interanimate.

   • 2008, David M Boje, Storytelling Organizations:

     As cognitive, aesthetic, and ethical discourses accumulate, and juxtapose, Bakhtin (1990) argues they begin to interanimate, to show up in one another, to express one through the other.