"totemism" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtoʊtəmɪzəm/ Forms: totemisms [plural]
Etymology: totem + -ism Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|totem|ism}} totem + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} totemism (usually uncountable, plural totemisms)
  1. (religion) The belief that a person or group has a special mystical relationship to a totem Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Religion Related terms: totemistic Translations (belief in a special relationship to a totem): طوطمية (Arabic), տոտեմիզմ (totemizm) (Armenian), totemismu [masculine] (Asturian), totemizm (Azerbaijani), татэмізм (tatemizm) [masculine] (Belarusian), টোটেমবাদ (ṭōṭembad) (Bengali), totemisme [masculine] (Catalan), totemismus [masculine] (Czech), totemisme (Dutch), totemismo (Esperanto), totemism (Estonian), totemismi (Finnish), totémisme [masculine] (French), totemismo [masculine] (Galician), ტოტემიზმი (ṭoṭemizmi) (Georgian), Totemismus [masculine] (German), totemizmus (Hungarian), totemisme (Indonesian), totemismo [masculine] (Italian), トーテミズム (tōtemizumu) (Japanese), тотемизм (totemizm) (Kazakh), 토템 숭배 (totem sungbae) (Korean), тотемизм (totemizm) (Kyrgyz), тотемизам (totemizam) [masculine] (Macedonian), tôtemisma (Malagasy), توتمپرستی (Persian), totemizm [masculine] (Polish), totemism [neuter] (Romanian), тотеми́зм (totɛmízm) [masculine] (Russian), totemizam [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), totemizmus [masculine] (Slovak), totemism (Swedish), тотемізм (totemizm) [masculine] (Ukrainian), totemizm (Uzbek)

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