animatismn.

1899 Jrnl. Anthropol Inst. 29 217 ‘Animatism’, namely, the attribution of life and will, but not of soul or spirit, to material objects and force.

1900 R. 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.

1910 Encycl. 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.

1940 L. E. Hinsie & J. Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 33/2 Animatism..is vividly exemplified..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.

1941 R. R. Marett Jerseyman at Oxf. xi Andrew Lang and Count Goblet d'Alviella..engaged in public and printed controversy over the meaning of my term ‘animatism’—one of which..I am rather ashamed as a verbal impropriety though it has happened to become current.

1952 Theology 55 75 The evidence as to the chronological sequence in which animatism precedes animism is conflicting.

2001 T. Heberer in S. Harrell Perspectives on Yi xiii. 230 With..the popularization of modern medical and scientific knowledge, shamanism (including animism and animatism) is doomed to disappear from Yi society.

1899 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 29 217 The transition through ‘Animatism’ and ‘animatistic’ mythology to Animism in the interpretation of the religious awe felt in relation to extraordinary manifestations.

1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 53/1 One portion of the savage explanation of nature may have been originally animistic, another part animatistic.

1994 J. J. Donohue Warrior Dreams i. 10 Ki is a concept related to Taoist and Shinto world-views, which sees the universe as a place invested with a fundamental animatistic force.