#animist

• Animist — A person who practices or adheres to animism; a follower of archaic beliefs that attribute an individual soul and consciousness to elements of nature. As an adjective, the term describes a ritual, community, myth, or philosophical and religious concept characterized by the veneration of spirits hidden in inanimate objects, plants, animals, or meteorological phenomena.
• Female animist — The feminine form for animist; a woman who belongs to an animist community or who shares the belief in the living and spiritual character of the entirety of nature. As an adjective, in the feminine gender, it describes a belief, mythology, magical practice, or community structure centered around the existence of individual souls in surrounding objects and phenomena.
• Animistic — Pertaining to animism, relating to animism, or characteristic of archaic beliefs that attribute an individual soul and consciousness to elements of nature; animistic. Although in current Romanian the established form is 'animist', the variant 'animistic' appears isolated in academic works as a loanword adapted directly from Western terminological models to describe primitive spiritual manifestations.