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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 stonesplay

  Familiarity information: ANIMATISM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ANIMATISM (noun)


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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