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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He felt nothing but contempt for the wave of modern psychism.
From Four Weird Tales by Blackwood, Algernon
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
Next to the hypnotic or mediumistic process, there is nothing that induces abnormal psychism so quickly as fasting.
From Nature Cure by Lindlahr, Henry
These pictures might also be called expositions of psychism in color and movement.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden
It is a matter of constitutional psychism as to where the sense of clear vision will be located.
From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial
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