- the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person (a medium) particularly susceptible to their influence.
- the practices or phenomena associated with this belief.
- the belief that all reality is spiritual.
- any of various doctrines maintaining that the ultimate reality is spirit or mind.
- spiritual quality or tendency.
- insistence on the spiritual side of things, as in philosophy or religion.
- the belief that the disembodied spirits of the dead, surviving in another world, can communicate with the living in this world, esp through mediums
- the doctrines and practices associated with this belief
- the belief that because reality is to some extent immaterial it is therefore spiritual
- any doctrine (in philosophy, religion, etc) that prefers the spiritual to the material
- the condition or quality of being spiritual
