spirituality
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin spīritālis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Late Latin spīrituālitāsder. Middle French spiritualitéder. English spirituality From Middle French spiritualité, from Late Latin spīrituālitās.
- derived from spīrituālitās
- derived from spiritualité
Definitions
The quality or state of being spiritual.
- , "The Ways of Wisdom are Ways of Pleasantness" a pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality
- If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest unto spirituality.
- Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come.
Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.
- African Indigenous Spirituality
Appreciation for religious values.
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That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as…
That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
- During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof.
An ecclesiastical body
An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
- Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality.
The neighborhood
- antonymmaterialism
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for spirituality. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA