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anima mundi

anima mundi noun: synonym of world soul.

Noun

anima mundi (plural animae mundi)

  1. Synonym of world soul.
    • 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...1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    world soul

Synonyms of anima mundi

Forms of anima mundi

pluralanimae mundi

Origin of anima mundi

Borrowed from Latin anima mundi.

Questions about anima mundi

What does anima mundi mean?
Anima mundi means synonym of world soul.
What part of speech is anima mundi?
Anima mundi is a noun.
What is the plural of anima mundi?
The plural of anima mundi is animae mundi.

Words near anima mundi in the dictionary

  1. anilopam
  2. anilophyll
  3. anilox
  4. anils
  5. anima
  6. anima mundi
  7. animable
  8. animacies
  9. animacy
  10. animadversion
  11. animadversional

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