Meanings
- uncountableThe quality or state of finding the spiritual manifest throughout the physical universe.
Conversely, Protestant morality in the nineteenth century and a secular spirituality or panspirituality in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries have often defined the feminine forms of domestic fiction.
2010, Kristin J. Jacobson, Neodomestic American Fiction, page 1372 more examples
For example, while over 70 percent of Korean Americans belong to Korean Christian churches (Kim, 1996), others have maintained traditional beliefs rooted in panspirituality and sometimes feel that they share liitle with Korean American Christians.
1999, Mark A. Mattaini, Clinical Intervention with Families, page 71These include: 1) the idealist treatment of science in terms of concepts and problems (Eucken's "Geistiger Posirivismus"); 2) varieties of the neo-Comtean program of naturalistic metaphysics, which often included Spinoza-like claims of panspirituality in the hands of the Leipzig Positivists and the Monist League (Wilhelm Ostwald figured prominently in both groups); 3) the extension of norms of particular sciences to culture, such as medical ideas of health and pathology, as one finds in Kraepelin's notion of the "social body" or the social Darwinist prescriptions in the Zeitschriftfiir Soziahinssenschaft;...
1999 September, David Lindenfeld, “Book Reviews”, in Central European History, volume 32, number 3
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*peh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*ph₂énts?
- Proto-Hellenic*pánts
- Ancient Greekπᾶς (pâs)
- Ancient Greekπᾰν- (păn-)
- Englishpan-
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)peys-der.?
- Latinspīrō
- Latinspīritus
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Latinspīritālis
- Late Latinspīrituālitās
- Middle Frenchspiritualité
- Englishspirituality
- Englishpanspirituality
From pan- + spirituality.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
panspirituality. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/panspirituality
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