animism

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena. countable,uncountable
    — "I'm not entirely comfortable with the level of animism you and Hanners display towards that thing."
  2. A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe. countable,uncountable
  3. A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit. countable,dated,uncountable

词形变化

animisms plural

词源

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