| divinity | | |
| n. (person) | 1. deity, divinity, god, immortal | any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force. |
| ~ pantheon | all the gods of a religion. |
| ~ demogorgon | (Greek mythology) a mysterious and terrifying deity of the underworld. |
| ~ hypnos | (Greek mythology) the Greek god of sleep; the son of Nyx. |
| ~ morpheus | the Roman god of sleep and dreams. |
| ~ spiritual being, supernatural being | an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events. |
| ~ daemon, demigod | a person who is part mortal and part god. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ celtic deity | a deity worshipped by the Celts. |
| ~ egyptian deity | a deity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians. |
| ~ semitic deity | a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites. |
| ~ hindu deity | a deity worshipped by the Hindus. |
| ~ persian deity | a deity worshiped by the ancient Persians. |
| ~ boddhisatva, bodhisattva | Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others. |
| ~ arhant, arhat, lohan | a Buddhist who has attained nirvana. |
| ~ chinese deity | a deity worshipped by the ancient Chinese. |
| ~ japanese deity | a deity worshipped by the Japanese. |
| ~ goddess | a female deity. |
| ~ earth-god, earth god | a god of fertility and vegetation. |
| ~ demiurge | a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe. |
| ~ graeco-roman deity, greco-roman deity | a deity of classical mythology. |
| ~ greek deity | a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks. |
| ~ roman deity | a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans. |
| ~ norse deity | a deity worshipped by the ancient Norsemen. |
| ~ teutonic deity | (German mythology) a deity worshipped by the ancient Teutons. |
| ~ anglo-saxon deity | (Anglo-Saxon mythology) a deity worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons. |
| ~ phrygian deity | deity of the ancient Phrygians of west central Asia Minor. |
| ~ quetzalcoatl | an Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent. |
| ~ saint | a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization. |
| ~ god of war, war god | a god worshipped as giving victory in war. |
| ~ snake god, zombi, zombie | a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. divinity | the quality of being divine.; "ancient Egyptians believed in the divinity of the Pharaohs" |
| ~ quality | an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone.; "the quality of mercy is not strained" |
| n. (food) | 3. divinity, divinity fudge | white creamy fudge made with egg whites. |
| ~ fudge | soft creamy candy. |
| n. (cognition) | 4. divinity, theology | the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth. |
| ~ redemption, salvation | (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil. |
| ~ creation | (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence. |
| ~ theology | the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary).; "he studied theology at Oxford" |
| ~ limbo | (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals). |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ divine guidance, inspiration | (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings.; "they believe that the books of Scripture were written under divine guidance" |
| ~ theanthropism | (theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine. |
| ~ foreordination, predetermination, preordination, predestination | (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind). |
| ~ discipline, field of study, subject area, subject field, bailiwick, subject, field, study | a branch of knowledge.; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" |
| ~ angelology | the branch of theology that is concerned with angels. |
| ~ 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 things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ theological system, theology | a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings.; "Jewish theology"; "Roman Catholic theology" |
| ~ venial, minor | warranting only temporal punishment.; "venial sin" |
| ~ mortal, deadly | involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death.; "the seven deadly sins" |
| ~ universalist, universalistic | of or relating to or tending toward universalism. |
| ~ fundamentalist, fundamentalistic | of or relating to or tending toward fundamentalism. |
| ~ catechetical, catechetic | of or relating to or involving catechesis. |
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