quietism
quietism is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Eccl. Hist.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agnostic
- agnosticism
- alien
- antichristian
- antichristianity
- atheism
- atheist
- atheistic
- belief
- bout
- carnal
- dechristianize
- deism
- deist
- deistical
- devoutless
- disbelief
- disbelieve
- doubt
- earthly
- faith
- faithless
- fort
- freethinker
- freethinking
- gentile
- giaour
- godless
- graceless
- heathen
- hylotheism
- incredulity
- incredulous
- incredulousness
- indevotion
- indevout
- infidel
- infidelity
- irreligion
- irreligious
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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