Usually means: Belief that objects have spirits.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word animism:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. animism: Merriam-Webster
  2. animism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. animism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. animism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. animism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Animism, animism: Wordnik
  7. animism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. animism: Wiktionary
  9. animism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. animism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. animism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. animism: Dictionary.com
  13. animism: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Animism (TV series), Animism (Tanya Tagaq album), Animism (disambiguation), Animism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Animism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. animism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. animism: Rhymezone
  18. Animism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. animism: FreeDictionary.org
  20. animism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. animism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. animism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. animism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. animism: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. animism: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. animism: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  3. The Ism Book (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. animism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. animism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Animism: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  3. animism: The Skeptic's Dictionary
  4. Third Eye's Paranormal (No longer online)

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Animism: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. animism: Anthropological Terms
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See animisms as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
noun:  A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.
noun:  (dated) A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.

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