English > divinity: 4 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | Any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force. |
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| Synonyms | deity, god, immortal |
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| Instances | Arhat, Arhant, lohan | A Buddhist who has attained nirvana |
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| Bodhisattva, Boddhisatva | Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others |
| Demogorgon | (Greek mythology) a mysterious and terrifying deity of the underworld |
| Hypnos | (Greek mythology) the Greek god of sleep |
| Morpheus | The Roman god of sleep and dreams |
| Quetzalcoatl | An Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent |
| Member of | pantheon | All the gods of a religion |
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| Narrower | Anglo-Saxon deity | (Anglo-Saxon mythology) a deity worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons |
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| Celtic deity | A deity worshipped by the Celts |
| Chinese deity | A deity worshipped by the ancient Chinese |
| Egyptian deity | A deity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians |
| Greco-Roman deity, Graeco-Roman deity | A deity of classical mythology |
| Greek deity | A deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks |
| Hindu deity | A deity worshipped by the Hindus |
| Japanese deity | A deity worshipped by the Japanese |
| Norse deity | A deity worshipped by the ancient Norsemen |
| Persian deity | A deity worshiped by the ancient Persians |
| Phrygian deity | deity of the ancient Phrygians of west central Asia Minor |
| Roman deity | A deity worshipped by the ancient Romans |
| Semitic deity | A deity worshipped by the ancient Semites |
| Teutonic deity | (German mythology) a deity worshipped by the ancient Teutons |
| daemon, demigod | A person who is part mortal and part god |
| demiurge | A subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe |
| earth-god, earth god | A god of fertility and vegetation |
| goddess | A female deity |
| saint | A person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization |
| sea god | A deity that personifies the sea and is usually believed to live in or to control the sea |
| sun god | A god that personifies the sun or is otherwise associated with the sun |
| war god, god of war | A god worshipped as giving victory in war |
| zombi, zombie, snake god | A god of voodoo cults / cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies |
| Broader | spiritual being, supernatural being | An incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events |
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| Spanish | deidad, diosa, dios, divinidad, inmortal |
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| Catalan | deïtat, déu, divinitat |
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| Adjectives | divine | being or having the nature of a god |
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English > divinity: 4 senses > noun 4, cognition| Meaning | The rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth. |
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| Synonym | theology |
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| Category of | Creation | (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence |
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| catechetical, catechetic | Of or relating to or involving catechesis |
| deadly, mortal | Involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death |
| divine guidance, inspiration | (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings |
| fundamentalist, fundamentalistic | Of or relating to or tending toward fundamentalism |
| limbo | (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals) |
| minor, venial | warranting only temporal punishment |
| predestination, foreordination, preordination, predetermination | (theology) being determined in advance |
| purgatory | (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins |
| redemption, salvation | (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil / evil |
| theanthropism | (theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine |
| theology | The learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary) |
| theology, theological system | A particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings |
| universalistic, universalist | Of or relating to or tending toward universalism |
| Narrower | angelology | The branch of theology that is concerned with angels |
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| apologetics | The branch of theology that is concerned with the defense of Christian doctrines |
| ecclesiology | The branch of theology concerned with the nature and the constitution and the functions of a church |
| eschatology | The branch of theology that is concerned with such final / final / final things as death and Last Judgment |
| hermeneutics | The branch of theology that deals with principles of exegesis |
| homiletics | The branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies |
| liturgics, liturgiology | The study of liturgies |
| theodicy | The branch of theology that defends God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil |
| Broader | discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick | A branch of knowledge |
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| Spanish | teología |
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| Catalan | divinitat, teologia |
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