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What is the noun for spiritualism?

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spirit
  1. The collective souls of man or another entity.
  2. A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
  3. Enthusiasm.
  4. The manner or style of something.
  5. (plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
  6. Energy; ardour.
  7. One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.
  8. Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.
  9. (obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
  10. (obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
  11. Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
  12. (alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
  13. (dyeing) stannic chloride
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  15. Examples:
    1. “Though he was in considerable discomfort, his spirit never failed him.”
      “Confucian thought is characterized by a spirit of humanism, rationalism, and moralism.”
      “The spirit approached and stopped right in front of her with arms outstretched.”
spirituality
  1. The quality or state of being spiritual.
  2. Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.
  3. Appreciation for religious values.
  4. (obsolete) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
  5. (obsolete) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “True spirituality, or godliness, is found in everyday social relationships as well as in prayer, learning, or ascetic practices.”
      “Whose capacity embraces spirituality, immateriality, incorporeity, or the mysteries of which he is every day informed?”
      “Like Taine, Cezanne had only contempt for the adepts of a dry, linear style, whom he associated with ascetic, religious spirituality.”
spiritualism
  1. 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.
  2. A belief that the dead communicate with the living, especially through a medium. Used in a broader sense than spiritism/Kardecism, in which followers specifically believe in Allan Kardec's Spiritist Codification, a series of books that contain additional moral and other teachings.
  3. The quality or state of being spiritual.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “He presents us with a feel-good spiritualism without any specific obligations.”
      “I was faced with frustrated people who watched their favorite notions and practitioners of spiritualism go down in flames.”
      “I've been involved in the Gaia Foundation for the last 14 years, working in the area of deep ecology, spiritualism and environmental activism.”
spiritualist
  1. One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
  2. (philosophy) One who maintains the philosophic doctrine of spiritualism.
  3. (spiritism) One who practises spiritism (a.k.a. spiritualism); a believer in the possibility of communication with the dead; one who attempts to communicate with the dead.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “His aunt, who was a spiritualist, comes to visit one night and brings with her a Ouija board.”
spiritualty
  1. (obsolete) The state or fact of being spiritual; holiness, spirituality.
  2. Collectively, the authorities of spiritual matters; the clergy.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He had studied the question for seven years, and was satisfied that no temporal lord could be head of the spiritualty.”
      “The two acts for the pardon of the spiritualty and temporalty were passed concurrently.”
      “The spiritualty were already exasperated by the clipping of their claws in the last session.”
spiritual
  1. A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
  2. Any spiritual function, office, or affair.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “One observer overheard a Moorish woman on a plantation singing a spiritual at the water's edge.”
spiritship
  1. The state or condition of being a spirit.
  2. (hence, with his or your) Title applied to, or used when addressing, a spirit.
spiriting
  1. (literary) The action of a spirit or ghost.
  2. Inspiration.
spiritualization
  1. The act of spiritualizing.
  2. The state of being spiritualized.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Thus one focuses on spiritualization of the self, the family, and consequently the whole society by imbibing higher values in one's character.”
      “In accordance with Melton's theory, the messianic belief underwent a process of spiritualization.”
      “With this his magistral work a new chapter of music commences, the spiritualization of the new body of man is manifest.”
spiritualness
  1. The quality or state of being spiritual or spiritual-minded; spirituality.
spiritdom
  1. The sphere, realm, or world of the spirit; spirituality; spirits collectively.
spiritling
  1. A small, young, diminutive, or inferior spirit; a ghostling.
spiritedness
  1. The property of being spirited, of having spirit.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Beagles are inclined to play rambunctiously and their spiritedness may lead to accidental injuries to their playmates.”
      “The poverty of the people is obvious, but at the same time a certain spiritedness seems to survive.”
      “Brio is what Peruvians call the willing, controllable spiritedness that typifies the breed.”
spiritualiser
  1. Alternative form of spiritualizer
spirithood
  1. The state, quality, or condition of a spirit.
spiritualizer
  1. One who spiritualizes.
spirits
  1. Distilled alcoholic beverages.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “After winning the lottery, his spirits were soaring with joy and excitement.”
      “After a long day at work, I decided to unwind by enjoying a few spirits at the local bar.”
spiritualizations
  1. plural of spiritualization
spiritualisers
  1. plural of spiritualiser
spiritualizers
  1. plural of spiritualizer
spiritualists
  1. plural of spiritualist
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  3. Examples:
    1. “According to spiritualists, the spirit dwells in the physical body, but can leave it temporarily or permanently.”
      “This non-mainstream art includes the work produced by visionaries, spiritualists under trance, eccentrics, and psychiatric patients.”
      “After making an international name for himself, he spent several years exposing phony spiritualists and mediums.”
spiritualisms
  1. plural of spiritualism
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Concomitantly, there has been a shift from religion to spiritualisms manifested in a trend toward syncretism and the simultaneous identification with different traditions.”
      “His works included complex sculptures and installations, paintings, photography and performance art and drew on influences from folk, comics and spiritualisms to pop psychology, punk and psychedelia.”
spiritualities
  1. plural of spirituality
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  3. Examples:
    1. “These two quite different spiritualities may share a common ground in a practical consumer tactics.”
      “Thus all spiritualities exist as sites of contention between salutary qualities and incapacitating effects.”
      “You could also point to the proliferation of new age spiritualities that take on increasingly fantastical forms.”
spiritualties
spiritlings
  1. plural of spiritling
spiritships
  1. plural of spiritship
spiritings
  1. plural of spiriting
spirituals
  1. plural of spiritual
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Many of his poems have a rap-like beat and contain direct references to jazz, blues, spirituals, soul music, and black musicians.”
      “Darden also tackles an old debate over whether spirituals were truly black inventions or merely adaptations of European music.”
      “The Harlem Gospel Choir is a really rousing outfit with its foot-stomping, hand-clapping blues and spirituals.”
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