Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun animatism

1 sense of animatism

Sense 1
animatism -- (the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones)
       => attribution, ascription -- (assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso")