anima mundi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin anima mundi.

Noun

anima mundi (plural animae mundi)

1. Synonym of world soul
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience […] ‎^[1], London: Longmans, Green & Co.:

     The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved; and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same.

Portuguese

Noun

anima mundi f (plural animae mundi)

1. (religion, philosophy) anima mundi; world soul (single, unifying spirit present in every living being)

Related terms

• anima