Crossword-Solution: ANIMISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Animism | n. | The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body. |
| Animism | n. | The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “ANIMISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Belief that natural objects possess souls | 1 answer |
| the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls | 1 answer |
| Widespread African belief | 1 answer |
| Shaman's doctrine | 1 answer |
| Primitive form of religion. | 1 answer |
| Feature of Incan religion | 1 answer |
| Doctrine that all natural objects have souls | 1 answer |
| Belief that things have souls | 1 answer |
| Belief that all objects possess life. | 1 answer |
| Belief that all natural objects have souls | 1 answer |
| Belief that all beings have a spirit | 1 answer |
| Belief of many Africans | 1 answer |
| Belief in spiritual beings. | 1 answer |
| Belief in spirits. | 1 answer |
| IVORY Coast religion | 2 answers |
| deism | 8 answers |
| BELIEF THINGS HAVE SPIRITS | 10 answers |
| A BELIEF THAT REJECTS THE ORTHODOX TENETS OF A RELIGION | 10 answers |
| A DAY OF SUPPLICATION FOR ALL THE SOULS IN PURGATORY | 10 answers |
| A BASIC GROUP OF NATURAL OBJECTS | 12 answers |
| incorporeality | 26 answers |
| immateriality | 80 answers |
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Sentences with ANIMISM (5)
The familiar aphorism of Statius: _Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor_, points to the relation of animism first to the belief in ghosts, thence to Polytheism, and ultimately to Monotheism.
The sporting man's sense of luck and chance, or of fortuitous necessity, is an inarticulate or inchoate animism.
From this simple animism the belief shades off by insensible gradations into the second, derivative form or phase above referred to, which is a more or less articulate belief in an inscrutable preternatural agency.
The economic drawbacks of animism are more patent and its consequences are more far-reaching under the modern system of large industry than under any other.
Such a priesthood may be expected to show the characteristics of the sacerdotal office only as blended and obscured with alien motives and traditions, due to the disturbing presence of other factors than those of animism and status in the purposes of the organizations to which this non-conforming fraction of the priesthood belongs.
Quotes with ANIMISM (3)
It is a well known fact that even among highly cultured peoples the belief in animism prevails generally. Even the scholar may kick the chair against which he accidentally stumbles, and derive great satisfaction from thus 'getting even' with the perverse chair.
The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.
A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is no longer either dead or passively obedient to the "laws.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1947–2024).