ghostism
nounEtymology From ghost + -ism.
1
Belief in ghosts.
- Immortal-soulism, spiritism, ghostism, all spring from a fabulous or mythical source. Corporeity is characteristic of being.1883, David D. Paterson, Zion's Waymarks, Or, Knowledge Vs. Mystery, page 105:
- This degradation took the forms of belief in Sheol (Hades) and in necromancy. Both of them were forms of ghostism. The first was a conception that the spirits of the departed remained associated somehow with their bodies and with the place of burial.1900, John Caldwell Calhoun Clarke, Man and His Divine Father, page 139: