Psychical: alternatives and connections

The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended se…

One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.

One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of anci…

The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the ani…

The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.

The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of…

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physi…

A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as,…

The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.

The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.

That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or th…

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the…

A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or ca…

The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human v…

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity…