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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
animatism is a noun meaning "the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones". It carries one recorded sense.
the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for animatism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.