animismo
Portuguese, noun/a.niˈmiz.mu/
animismo is spelled A-N-I-M-I-S-M-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese, the 97,539th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Animismo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “animism (belief that spirits inhabit natural objects)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “crença que uma força imaterial está em todas as coisas do universo”.
What does animismo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineanimism (belief that spirits inhabit natural objects)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. crença que uma força imaterial está em todas as coisas do universo
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of animismo
- animismos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce animismo?
- Brazil /a.niˈmiz.mu/
- /a.niˈmiʒ.mu/
- Portugal /ɐ.niˈmiʒ.mu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to animismo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is animismo in Portuguese?
animismo appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).