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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
spiritualism
    n 1: (theology) any doctrine that asserts the separate existence
         of God
    2: the belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate
       with people who are still alive (especially via a medium)
    3: concern with things of the spirit [syn: spirituality,
       spiritualism, spiritism, otherworldliness] [ant:
       worldliness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Spiritualism \Spir"it*u*al*ism\, n.
   1. The quality or state of being spiritual.
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   2. (Physiol.) The doctrine, in opposition to the
      materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul --
      that what is called the external world is either a
      succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity,
      as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the
      mind itself, as taught by Fichte.
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   3. A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with
      mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rapping, or
      during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like,
      commonly manifested through a person of special
      susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism; the doctrines
      and practices of spiritualists.
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            What is called spiritualism should, I think, be
            called a mental species of materialism. --R. H.
                                                  Hutton.
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Thesaurus Results for Spiritualism:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Berkeleianism, Hegelianism, Kantianism, Neoplatonism, Platonic form, Platonic idea, Platonism, absolute idealism, animatism, animism, form, hylozoism, idealism, immaterialism, mediumism, metaphysical idealism, monistic idealism, necromancy, panpsychism, personalism, psychism, seance, sitting, solipsism, spirit, spiritism, subjectivism, transcendental, universal
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