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Kardecism

Kardecism noun: a type of spiritualism (defined broadly as the belief that the dead communicate with the living, especially through a medium) whose followers believe in Allan Kardec's Spiritist Codification, a series of five books containing moral and other teachings.

Noun

Kardecism (uncountable)

  1. A type of spiritualism (defined broadly as the belief that the dead communicate with the living, especially through a medium) whose followers believe in Allan Kardec's Spiritist Codification, a series of five books containing moral and other teachings.
    Synonyms:
    Spiritism

Synonyms of Kardecism

Origin of Kardecism

From Kardec + -ism.

Questions about Kardecism

What does Kardecism mean?
Kardecism means a type of spiritualism (defined broadly as the belief that the dead communicate with the living, especially through a medium) whose followers believe in Allan Kardec's Spiritist Codification, a series of five books containing moral and other teachings.
What part of speech is Kardecism?
Kardecism is a noun.

Words near Kardecism in the dictionary

  1. Kardashian index
  2. Kardashian-esque
  3. Kardashianesque
  4. Kardashianization
  5. Kardashians
  6. Kardecism
  7. Kardecist
  8. Kardecists
  9. Kardella
  10. Kardella South
  11. kardex

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