animism

English

Etymology

anima +‎ -ism, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin anima (“life", "breath", "soul”). Dated sense from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Animismus, coined c. 1720 by physicist/chemist Georg Ernst Stahl (1660-1734) See anima mundi.

Noun

animism (countable and uncountable, plural animisms)

1. A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
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

• (religions) religion; agnosticism,‎ Asatru,‎ atheism,‎ Ayyavazhi,‎ Baháʼí Faith,‎ Bon,‎ Buddhism,‎ Cao Dai,‎ Cheondoism,‎ Christianity,‎ deism,‎ Druidry,‎ Druze,‎ Eckankar,‎ Heathenry,‎ Hinduism,‎ Islam,‎ Jainism,‎ Jediism,‎ Judaism,‎ Kimbanguism,‎ Odinism,‎ paganism,‎ Pastafarianism,‎ Raëlism,‎ Rastafarianism,‎ Rodnovery,‎ Romuva,‎ Samaritanism,‎ Sanamahism,‎ Shinto,‎ Sikhism,‎ Taoism,‎ Tengrism,‎ Thelema,‎ Unitarian Universalism,‎ Wicca,‎ Yahwism,‎ Yazidism,‎ Yoruba,‎ Zoroastrianism ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}

Translations

belief in spirits

• Catalan: animisme m
• Chinese:

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

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

• Finnish: animismi (fi)
• French: animisme (fr) m
• German: Animismus (de) m
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• Greek: ανιμισμός (el) m (animismós)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: anamachas m
• Khmer: វិញ្ញាណនិយម (vi nhean ni yum), ព្រលឹងនិយម (km) (pro lueng ni yum)
• Polish: animizm (pl)
• Portuguese: animismo (pt) m
• Romanian: animism (ro) n
• Russian: аними́зм (ru) m (animízm)
• Turkish: canlıcılık (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} animismo
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See also

• animism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia