ANIMATISM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("animatism" is a kind of...):

ascription; attribution (assigning to a cause or source)

Derivation:

animatistic (of or pertaining to animatism)

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