animatism

an·i·ma·tism

A0311050 (ăn′ə-mĭ-tĭz′əm)n. A belief that all animate and inanimate objects are infused with a common life force.

an′i·ma·tist adj. & n.an·i·ma·tis′tic adj.

animatism

(ˈænɪməˌtɪzəm) nthe belief that inanimate objects have consciousness

animatism

the assignment to inanimate objects, forces, and plants of personalities and wills, but not souls. — animatistic, adj.See also: Inanimate Objects

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animatism - the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stonesascription, attribution - assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso"

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animatism:

see animismanimism,
belief in personalized, supernatural beings (or souls) that often inhabit ordinary animals and objects, governing their existence. British anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor argued in Primitive Culture
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Animatism

belief in an impersonal indwelling of souls in nature or in its component parts and phenomena, a characteristic of primitive religions.

Animatism must be distinguished from hylozoism and animism, which believe in personal nonmaterial beings (spirits) present, as it were, in certain objects or phenomena. The question of when animatism arose in the history of social awareness has not yet been resolved by science. Certain scholars (L. Ia. Shternberg and others) regard animatism as an earlier stage in the development of religion than animism; others (such as V. G. Bogoraz-Tan) believe that they coexisted.

REFERENCES

Tokarev, S. A. Rannie formy religii i ikh razvitie. Moscow, 1964.
Shternberg, L. Ia. Pervobytnaia religiia v svele etnografii. Leningrad, 1935.

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an·i·mat·ism

(an'i-mă-tizm), Attribution of mental or spiritual qualities to both living beings and nonliving things.
See also: animism.

animatism

An obsolete term for the ascribing of life forces to inanimate objects—i.e., gaiaism.

animatism

(ăn′ĭ-mă-tĭzm) [ animate + -ism] Attribution of, an impersonal consciousness to everything in nature, animate and inanimate.

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noun the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones

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