Animistic Synonyms

Of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. animist

Words Related to Animistic

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Animistic Sentence Examples

  • This animistic tendency is a marked characteristic of primitive Man in every land.

  • His world-conception is highly animistic. He feels the thrill of life everywhere, in plants, earth, stars, the total universe.

  • With the rise of species, deities and the cult of individual animals, the path towards anthropomorphization and polytheism is opened and the respect paid to animals tends to lose its strict animistic character.

  • All over the world agricultural peoples practise elaborate ceremonies explicable, as Mannhardt has shown, on animistic principles.

  • Animistic in many of their features too are the temporary gods of fetishism, naguals or familiars, genii and even the dead who receive a cult.

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