Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)The belief that a person or group has a special mystical relationship to a totem.

    Totemismus

    тотеми́змtotɛmízm

    тотемізмtotemizm

    belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem

Translations

6 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

From totem + -ism.

From totem + -ism.

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Forms

plural: totemisms
Singulartotemism

uncountable

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
totemism — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto