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Definition: Spiritualism |
SpiritualismNoun1. Any doctrine that asserts the separate existence of God. 2. The belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spiritualism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Religious philosophy expressing the fundamental belief that departed spirits may be contacted by the living through a medium. (references) |
Literature | Spiritualism or ~~~Spiritism. Spiritism. A system which started up in America in 1848. It professes that certain living persons have the power of holding communion with the "spirits of the dead." Nineteenth century spiritualism probably owes its origin to Andrew Jackson Davis, "the seer of Poughkeepsie." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Spiritualism is a religion in which contact with the spirits of the dead through a medium is central. Spiritualism in its modern incarnation started in the mid-nineteenth century in the United States and essentially grew out of Christianity. It is still perceived as largely Christian in its broadest sense (although no one, least of all Spiritualists, would begin to claim that its beliefs were orthodox), but there are people from other traditions who happily take the title "Spiritualist" whose background is anything but Christian.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spiritualism."
Synonyms: SpiritualismSynonyms: Communication with the dead, Spiritism. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Immateriality | Personality; I, myself, me; ego, spirit. (soul); astral body; immaterialism; spiritualism, spiritualist. |
Intellect | Ideality, idealism; transcendentalism, spiritualism; immateriality; universal concept, universal conception. |
Sorcery | Noun: sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy; demonology, demonomy, demonship; diablerie, bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism, vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force; electrobiology, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Spiritualism |
| English words defined with "spiritualism": ectoplasm ♦ spirit rapping, spiritualist, spiritualistic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Spiritualism" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (spiritualism), Swedish (spiritualism). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Spiritualism Exposed (1926) | |
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| "Spiritualism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spiritualism" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spiritualism | 114 |
history spiritualism | 3 |
buddhist spiritualism | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "spiritualism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spiritualizëm, spiritizëm (spiritism, table-lifting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الأرواحية التصديق بهم, روحانية (spirituality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спиритуализъм (spiritism), идеализъм (idealism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "灵论. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spiritualismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spiritisme (spiritism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | spiritismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | spiritismi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spiritualisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spiritismus (spiritism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πνευματισμόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | רוח יות (spirituality), ספיריטואליזם. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | spiritizmus (psychomancy, spiritism), spiritualizmus (animism), idealizmus (idealism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spiritualismo, spiritismo (spiritism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "心論 (idealism, mentalism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"れいじゅつ, くちよせ (necromancy), せいし"しゅぎ (idealism), "うし"じゅつ, "うし" (57th of the sexagenary cycle, accelerated, acceleration, backward, constancy, correspondence, developing, exasperated, exasperation, favorite courtier, filial devotion, innovation, labia, lips, march, meritorious retainer, one's junior, parade, red lips, renewal, renovation, rise, rising, spiritism, steadiness, telecommunications, update), "うれいじゅつ (spiritism), ス"リチュアリズ , ゆいし"ろ" (idealism, mentalism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | spyrrydoilaghys, spyrrydaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iritualismspay espiritismo (spiritism, telekinesis). (various references) spiritualism, spiritism (spiritism). (various references) спиритизм (spiritism, spirit-rapping, table-lifting). (various references) spiritualizam (spiritism). (various references) espiritismo (spiritism). (various references) spiritism (spiritism). (various references) spiritualizm (spiritism), tinselcilik (spiritism), ruhlara inanma, ruhanilik (spirituality), metafizik düşünce, ispritizma. (various references) спіритуалізм, спіритизм (spiritism). (various references) ysbrydegaeth. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spiritualism": spiritualisms. (additional references) | |
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"Spiritualism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spiritualis, spiritualise, spiritulism, spirtualism, spritualism. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spiritualism" (pronounced spi"rikhuwuli'zm or spi"rikhwuli'zm) |
| 5 | -u l i' z m | tribalism. |
| 3 | -i' z m | athleticism, urbanism. |
| 5 | -u l i' z m | tribalism. |
| 3 | -i' z m | athleticism, urbanism. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-i-l-m-p-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: ritualisms, spirituals. | |
-3 letters: altruisms, mistrials, muralists, plastrums, ritualism, spiritism, spiritual, spritsail, tiramisus, ultraisms. | |
-4 letters: altruism, militias, misparts, mistrals, mistrial, muralist, palmists, plastrum, primulas, psalmist, simitars, simplist, simulars, spirulas, stipular, tiramisu, tissular, ultraism, upstairs. | |
-5 letters: armpits, atriums, aurists, autisms, impairs, imparts, militia, mispart, missuit, mistral, palmist, pastils, pistils, primula, pulsars, purisms, purists, ramtils, rapists, rituals. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-i-l-m-p-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: spiritualisms. | |
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