English noun: divinity |
1. | divinity (person) 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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| Broader (hypernym) | spiritual being, supernatural being |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Anglo-Saxon deity, Celtic deity, Chinese deity, daemon, demigod, demiurge, earth god, earth-god, Egyptian deity, god of war, goddess, Graeco-Roman deity, Greco-Roman deity, Greek deity, Hindu deity, Japanese deity, Norse deity, Persian deity, Phrygian deity, Roman deity, saint, sea god, Semitic deity, snake god, sun god, Teutonic deity, war god, zombi, zombie |
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| Instance hyponym | Arhant, Arhat, Boddhisatva, Bodhisattva, Demogorgon, Hypnos, lohan, Morpheus, Quetzalcoatl |
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| Member meronym | pantheon |
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2. | divinity (attribute) the quality of being divine |
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| Samples | Ancient Egyptians believed in the divinity of the Pharaohs.
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| Broader (hypernym) | quality |
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3. | divinity (food) white creamy fudge made with egg whites |
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| Synonyms | divinity fudge |
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| Broader (hypernym) | fudge |
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4. | divinity (cognition) the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth |
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| Synonyms | theology |
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| Broader (hypernym) | bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | angelology, apologetics, ecclesiology, eschatology, hermeneutics, homiletics, liturgics, liturgiology, theodicy |
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| Domain category members | catechetic, catechetical, Creation, deadly, divine guidance, foreordination, fundamentalist, fundamentalistic, inspiration, limbo, minor, mortal, predestination, predetermination, preordination, purgatory, redemption, salvation, theanthropism, theological system, theology, theology, universalist, universalistic, venial |
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