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Nonphysical vs Animastic - What's the difference?

nonphysical | animastic |

As adjectives the difference between nonphysical and animastic

is that nonphysical is not physical; not using kinetic energy while animastic is pertaining to or possessing an animate nonphysical nature; having a mental or spiritual nature.

nonphysical

English

Adjective

(-)
  • not physical; not using kinetic energy
  • not having physical form; insubstantial

    • Derived terms

    * nonphysicality * nonphysically * nonphysicalness

    animastic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Pertaining to or possessing an animate nonphysical nature; having a mental or spiritual nature.
  • * 1816 , , "A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries," The Pamphleteer , vol. 8, no. 15, p. 66:
    • But we employ fables in an animastic mode, when we contemplate the energies of the soul.
  • Relating to mind or spirit; spiritual.

    • References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.