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say it: AN-uh-miz-uhm
animism is a noun meaning "the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls". It carries one recorded sense.
the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls
“animism is common among primitive peoples”
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 animism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.