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animatism|ˈænɪmətɪz(ə)m|
[f. animate a. + -ism.]
The ascription of psychic qualities to inanimate as well as animate objects. So animaˈtistic a.
1900R. R. Marett in Folk-Lore June 171 It is Animism in the loose sense of some writers, or, as I propose to call it, Animatism. 1910Encycl. Brit. II. 53/1 The term [animism] is often extended to include panthelism or animatism, the doctrine that a great part..of the inanimate kingdom, as well as all animated beings, are endowed with reason..identical with that of man. Ibid., One portion of the savage explanation of nature may have been originally animistic, another part animatistic. 1940Hinsie & Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 33/2 Animatism..is vividly examplified..in schizophrenic subjects, who often personify the whole of the inanimate world, as if the latter possessed the same mental qualities as human beings do. 1941R. R. Marett Jerseyman at Oxford xi, It reminds me of an occasion long ago when Andrew Lang and Count Goblet d'Alviella were engaged in public and printed controversy over the meaning of my term ‘animatism’—one of which, by the way, I am rather ashamed as a verbal impropriety though it has happened to become current. 1952Theology LV. 75 The evidence as to the chronological sequence in which animatism precedes animism is conflicting. |