psychism
Americannoun
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psychic abilities or phenomena, such as telekinesis or extrasensory perception, or the belief in such abilities or phenomena.
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the belief that all things, including plants and inanimate objects, possess a soul. Compare panpsychism.
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the belief in an immaterial substance that animates all living beings.
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We are far too apt, in our ordinary thought and talking, to limit the words "psychical," "psychic," or "psychism" in a quite illegitimate way, and the popular use of the term is illegitimate.
From London Lectures of 1907 by Besant, Annie Wood
Spirituality is the Self-realisation of the One; psychism is the manifestation of the powers of consciousness through organised matter.
From London Lectures of 1907 by Besant, Annie Wood
For instance, if it is claimed in the name of supernaturalism and psychism that a man is unhappy because he is vicious, it is equivalent to making a one-sided statement.
From The Positive School of Criminology Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 by Ferri, Enrico
It leaves us free to regard all natural causation as a direct exhibition of psychism.
From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John
She knows the psychism of patterns and evolves them with strict regard for the pictural aspects in them which save them from banality as ideas.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden
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