Spiritism
English
proper noun
Definitions
- A philosophical doctrine, established in France in the mid nineteenth century, postulating that humans are essentially immortal spirits that temporarily inhabit physical bodies, and may have influence on the physical world.
Etymology
Suffix from English spirit.
Origin
English
spirit
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Spiritist English
- despirit English
- dispirit English
- inspirit English
- nonspirit English
- perispirit English
- spirit English
- spirit man English
- spirit-man English
- spiritdom English
- spiriten English
- spiriteth English
- spiritful English
- spirithood English
- spiritic English
- spiritish English
- spiritism English
- spiritist English
- spiritistic English
- spiritless English
- spiritlike English
- spiritling English
- spiritly English
- spiritman English
- spiritous English
- spiritship English
- spiritsome English
- spiritwise English
- spirity English
- unspirit English
- witchspirit English
- spīritus Latin
- спирт Russian
- spirit Middle English
- spirit Tok Pisin
- spirit
- spirity
- spiriten
- inspirit
- dispirit
- spiritic
- unspirit
- despirit
- spiritly
- spiritish
- spiritism
- nonspirit
- spiriteth
- spiritdom
- spiritous
- spiritist
- spiritman
- spiritful
- Spiritist
- spiritless
- spiritwise
- spiritship
- spiritlike
- perispirit
- spirithood
- spiritsome
- spirit-man
- spiritling
- spirit man
- spiritistic
- witchspirit