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ANIMATISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does animatism mean?
• ANIMATISM (noun)
The noun ANIMATISM has 1 sense:
1. the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones
Familiarity information: ANIMATISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("animatism" is a kind of...):
ascription; attribution (assigning to a cause or source)
Derivation:
animatistic (of or pertaining to animatism)
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