Definition of animatism Animatism

an•i•ma•tism

We found 3 definitions of animatism from 3 different sources.

What does animatism mean?

WordNet

Noun

Plural: animatisms

animatism - the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones

ascription, attribution assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso"

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Wiktionary

animatism (Noun)
The belief that everything is pervaded with a life-force giving each inanimate object a consciousness or personality, but not a soul as in animism.