interanimate

Adjective

interanimate (not comparable)

1. Occurring as or involving interactions between separate consciousnesses.
   • Meanwhile, however, classicism had kept alive the imagination of an interanimate cosmos: of the land and the sea as gods and as comprising hosts of minor local deities; of humans as children of gods; of natural creatures as transformed humans (Daphne into laurel, Procne into swallow) or as...1995, Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination, page 183
   • Before going on to show the relationship of tactile-kinesthetic invariants and iconicity to analogical thinking, I would like to interpose a question alluded to earlier: how are new interanimate meanings minted?2004, Morana Alač, Patrizia Violi, In the Beginning: Origins of Semiosis, page 118
2. Mutually affecting; tending to interanimate.
   • If we agree with Pat Hartwell's statement that thinking and writing are interanimate, then we cannot help but address thinking when we speak of writing .1992, Linda Bannister, Writing Apprehension and Anti-writing, page 2
   • The interaction of discourses is dynamic, interdependent, "interanimate," and "interilluminating."1994, George Kalamaras, Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension, page 26

Verb

IPA/ˌɪntəɹˈænɪmeɪt/

interanimate (third-person singular simple present interanimates, present participle interanimating, simple past and past participle interanimated)

1. To animate or inspire mutually.
   • When love, with another so
     Interanimates two soulsa. 1631, John Donne, The Ecstasy
   • These voices compete, interanimate (penetrate and inform), and change over time.1996, Jennifer L. Troutner, Language, Culture, and Politics: English in China, 1840s-1990s, page 45