Definition of "animistic" []

• Of or pertaining to animism. (adjective)

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• "The word animistic should have been animalistic ... by"
• "An entirely different class of ideas, also termed animistic, is the belief in the world soul, held by Plato, Schelling and others."
• "Thus we have evidence of the existence in pre-Buddhist India of rites and beliefs — the latter chiefly of the kind called animistic — disowned for the most part by the Buddhists and only tolerated by the Brahmans."