animism

animism has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.
• 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.
• n.. the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls; "animism is common among primitive peoples"