Word
Spiritualism
How many syllables?
5 Syllables
How it's divided?
spir-it-u-al-ism
Definition
- n. - The quality or state of being spiritual.
- n. - The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that
all which exists is spirit, or soul -- that what is called the external
world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the
Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind
itself, as taught by Fichte.
- n. - A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with
mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rappng, or during
abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested
through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism;
the doctrines and practices of spiritualists.
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