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animastic

animastic adjective: pertaining to or possessing an animate nonphysical nature; having a mental or spiritual nature.

Adjective

animastic (comparative more animastic, superlative most animastic)

  1. (rare) Pertaining 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.

Forms of animastic

comparativemore animastic
superlativemost animastic

Origin of animastic

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

Questions about animastic

What does animastic mean?
Animastic means pertaining to or possessing an animate nonphysical nature; having a mental or spiritual nature.
What part of speech is animastic?
Animastic is an adjective.

Words near animastic in the dictionary

  1. animanga
  2. animangas
  3. animas
  4. animash
  5. animashes
  6. animastic
  7. animastical
  8. animat
  9. animatable
  10. animate
  11. animated

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