animastic

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adjective

Pertaining to or possessing an animate nonphysical nature; having a mental or spiritual nature.

OriginLatin animasticus →
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Meanings

adjectiveanimastic (comparative more animastic, superlative most animastic)

comparative more animastic · superlative most animastic

  1. rarePertaining to or possessing an animate nonphysical nature; having a mental or spiritual nature.

    But we employ fables in an animastic mode, when we contemplate the energies of the soul.

    1816, Thomas Taylor, “A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries,”, in The Pamphleteer, volume 8, number 15, page 66
  2. Relating to mind or spirit; spiritual.

Origin

  1. Latin-asticus
  2. Latinanimus
  3. Latinanimasticus
  4. Englishanimastic

From Latin animasticus, from Latin animus + Latin -asticus. By surface analysis, animus + -astic.

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APA

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MLA

“animastic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/animastic. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “animastic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/animastic.

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