Noun: animism
| Singular | animism |
| Plural | animisms |
Sample Sentences
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"I'm not entirely comfortable with the level of animism you and Hanners display towards that thing." [2015, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 3126: Been A While I Guess:]
Nouns inflected like animism
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Latin Nouns '
anima', German Nouns '
Animismus'.
Verbs referencing "animism"
Finnish Nouns
animismi.