Usually means: Belief in pervasive spiritual forces.
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  1. animatism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. animatism: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. animatism: Wordnik
  5. animatism: Wiktionary
  6. animatism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  9. Animatism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. animatism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (animatism)

noun:  (anthropology) The belief that everything is pervaded by a life force giving each inanimate object a consciousness or personality, but not a soul as in animism.

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