spiritistic
/spɪɹɪˈtɪstɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to, or associated, dealing, concerned, or connected with, spiritism (a.k.a. modern spiritualism); spiritualistic.
Example Sentences
- "That spiritistic ‘literature’ which has led astray…so many weak and impressionable minds."
- "The only perfectly ascertained fact of spiritistic science is the rap."
- "New support for unfounded spiritualistic and spiritistic chimeras."
- "No living person can enter the perception of his fellow save as a body. This holds in the most spiritistic of systems. Even the bodyless dead must have a living body for a medium of their manifestation; nor can any event of heaven or hell make sense except by way of bodily reference."
- "All conventional philosophies assume the existence of a real world — a reality apart from knowers and their knowing — although not all indulge themselves in speculations concerning ontological matters. I make this claim even of the most spiritistic forms of idealism, in that to speak about the universe at all implies someone speaking and something spoken about — these two constituting the existent reality."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Old French espiritbor. Middle English spirit English spirit Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -istic English spiritistic From spirit + -istic.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /spɪɹɪˈtɪstɪk/
Inflected Forms
more spiritistic (comparative)
most spiritistic (superlative)