Meanings
plural animae mundi
- Synonym of world soul.
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The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved; and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same.
1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLCSynonyms: world soul
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of world soul.
Origin
- Latinanima mundi
- Englishanima mundi
Borrowed from Latin anima mundi.
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