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Spiritualism - What does it mean?

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spiritualism

English

Noun

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  • A philosophic doctrine, opposing materialism, that claims transcendency of the divine being, the altogether spiritual character of reality and the value of inwardness of consciousness.
  • A belief that the dead communicate with the living through a medium having special powers.
  • * R. H. Hutton
  • What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
  • The quality or state of being spiritual.
  • Derived terms

    * spiritualist

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