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spiritualism

[ spir-i-choo-uh-liz-uhm ]

noun

  1. the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person (a medium) particularly susceptible to their influence.
  2. the practices or phenomena associated with this belief.
  3. the belief that all reality is spiritual.
  4. Metaphysics. any of various doctrines maintaining that the ultimate reality is spirit or mind.
  5. spiritual quality or tendency.
  6. insistence on the spiritual side of things, as in philosophy or religion.


spiritualism

/ ˈspɪrɪtjʊəˌlɪzəm /

noun

  1. the belief that the disembodied spirits of the dead, surviving in another world, can communicate with the living in this world, esp through mediums
  2. the doctrines and practices associated with this belief
  3. philosophy the belief that because reality is to some extent immaterial it is therefore spiritual
  4. any doctrine (in philosophy, religion, etc) that prefers the spiritual to the material
  5. the condition or quality of being spiritual
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌspirituaˈlistic, adjective
  • ˈspiritualist, noun
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Other Words From

  • spirit·u·al·istic adjective
  • spirit·u·al·isti·cal·ly adverb
  • anti·spirit·u·al·ism noun
  • anti·spirit·u·al·istic adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of spiritualism1

First recorded in 1825–35; spiritual + -ism
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Example Sentences

That’s why they’re marrying spiritualism with practical steps.

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She rejected vaccination and vivisection and moved toward spiritualism.

He is deeply rooted in a heartfelt and learned cosmopolitan spiritualism.

Nevertheless, the triumph of West Coast spiritualism over East Coast secularism has civilization-wide implications.

All three were anxious," Gray writes, "that the rise of Spiritualism would block the advance of scientific materialism.

The miracles are believed in by many, but Spiritualism lags far behind the Mormon theology, and probably always will do.

That which goes by the names of clairvoyance and spiritualism is based solely upon an unreasoning credulity.

After a time clairvoyance was replaced by spiritualism, and I was again challenged to test the virtue of mediums.

Such a culmination has been attained by the believers in Modern Spiritualism.

The fact that I do so shows, at all events, that I have looked seriously at spiritualism since.

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