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say it: SHAY-muh-nizm
shamanism is a noun meaning "any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes)
United States
an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans
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 shamanism 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.