ghostism

English

Etymology

ghost +‎ -ism

Noun

ghostism (uncountable)

1. Belief in ghosts.
   • 1883, David D. Paterson, Zion's Waymarks, Or, Knowledge Vs. Mystery, page 105:

     Immortal-soulism, spiritism, ghostism, all spring from a fabulous or mythical source. Corporeity is characteristic of being.

   • 1900, John Caldwell Calhoun Clarke, Man and His Divine Father, page 139:

     This degradation took the forms of belief in Sheol (Hades) and in necromancy. Both of them were forms of ghostism. The first was a conception that the spirits of the departed remained associated somehow with their bodies and with the place of burial.