animism

n. 万物有灵论 [医] 灵气说, 泛灵论

发音

/ˈænɪmɪzəm/

词形变化

animisms 复数 animisms

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.

    泛灵论

    泛灵信仰

    万物有灵论

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.

    可数 过时 不可数

词汇关系

名词

上位词 4

philosophy doctrine -ism school of thought

词源

From anima + -ism, from Latin anima (“life", "breath", "soul”). Dated sense from German Animismus, coined c. 1720 by physicist/chemist Georg Ernst Stahl (1660-1734) See anima mundi.

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