different between supernaturalism vs animism

English

Etymology

supernatural +? -ism

Noun

supernaturalism (countable and uncountable, plural supernaturalisms)

1. The quality or condition of being supernatural.
2. A belief in the doctrine of supernatural or divine agency as manifested in the world, in human events, religious revelation, miracles, etc.

English

Etymology

anima +? -ism, from Latin anima (“life", "breath", "soul”). Dated sense from German Animismus, coined c. 1720 by physicist/chemist Georg Ernst Stahl (1660-1734) See anima mundi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æn?m?z?m/

Noun

animism (countable and uncountable, plural animisms)

1. A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects or phenomena.
2. A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.
3. (dated) A doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial spirit.

Coordinate terms

• (religions) religion; Asatru,? Bahá'í Faith,? Buddhism,? Cao Dai,? Cheondoism,? Christianity,? deism,? Druidry,? Eckankar,? Flying Spaghetti Monsterism,? Heathenry,? Hinduism,? Islam,? Jainism,? Jediism,? Judaism,? Kimbanguism,? Odinism,? paganism,? Pastafarianism,? Raëlism,? Rastafarianism,? Shinto,? Sikhism,? Tamilism,? Taoism,? Thelema,? Unitarian Universalism,? Wicca,? Yazidism,? Yoruba,? Zoroastrianism ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}

Translations

See also

• animism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

From French animisme

Noun

animism n (uncountable)

1. animism

Declension