noun Etymology: German Animismus, from Latin anima soul Date: 1832 a doctrine that the vital principle of organic development is immaterial spirit, attribution of conscious life to objects in and phenomena of nature or to inanimate objects, belief in the existence of spirits separable from bodies, animist noun animistic adjective
ANIMISM
Meaning of ANIMISM in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012