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deity

noun
/ˈdiː.ɪ.ti/UK/ˈdi.ə.ti/US/ˈɖɛj(ɪ)ʈi//ˈdeː.ɪɾi/CA

Etymology

From Middle French deité, from Latin deitās.

  1. derived from deitās
  2. borrowed from deité

Definitions

  1. Synonym of divinity

    Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god.

    • Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee.

  2. A supernatural divine being

    A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess.

    • The fact that in most lands the moon was originally a female deity has led many historians to dispute the superiority of the moon over the sun in ancient mythology.
    • Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity.
    • The crux of monotheism is not only belief in a single deity but belief in a deity who is different from everything else.

The neighborhood

Derived

deityhood, deityless, deitylike, deityship, demideity, lunar deity, moon deity, multideity, overdeity, semideity, solar deity, subdeity, sun deity

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at deity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at deity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at deity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA