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DIVINITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being divine
Example:
ancient Egyptians believed in the divinity of the Pharaohs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("divinity" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Derivation:
divine (devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth
Synonyms:
divinity; theology
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("divinity" is a kind of...):
bailiwick; discipline; field; field of study; study; subject; subject area; subject field (a branch of knowledge)
Domain member category:
catechetic; catechetical (of or relating to or involving catechesis)
fundamentalist; fundamentalistic (of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents)
universalist; universalistic (of or relating to or tending toward universalism)
deadly; mortal (involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death)
minor; venial (warranting only temporal punishment)
theological system; theology (a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings)
foreordination; predestination; predetermination; preordination ((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))
theanthropism ((theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine)
divine guidance; inspiration ((theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings)
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)
limbo ((theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals))
theology (the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary))
Creation ((theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence)
redemption; salvation ((theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "divinity"):
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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
White creamy fudge made with egg whites
Synonyms:
divinity; divinity fudge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("divinity" is a kind of...):
fudge (soft creamy candy)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
Synonyms:
deity; divinity; god; immortal
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("divinity" is a kind of...):
spiritual being; supernatural being (an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "divinity"):
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)
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)
Chinese deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Chinese)
Persian deity (a deity worshiped by the ancient Persians)
Hindu deity (a deity worshipped by the Hindus)
Semitic deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites)
Egyptian deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians)
Celtic deity (a deity worshipped by the Celts)
sun god (a god that personifies the sun or is otherwise associated with the sun)
sea god (a deity that personifies the sea and is usually believed to live in or to control the sea)
daemon; demigod (a person who is part mortal and part god)
Instance hyponyms:
Arhant; Arhat; lohan (a Buddhist who has attained nirvana)
Boddhisatva; Bodhisattva (Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others)
Morpheus (the Roman god of sleep and dreams)
Quetzalcoatl (an Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent)
Hypnos ((Greek mythology) the Greek god of sleep; the son of Nyx)
Demogorgon ((Greek mythology) a mysterious and terrifying deity of the underworld)
Holonyms ("divinity" is a member of...):
pantheon (all the gods of a religion)
Derivation:
divine (being or having the nature of a god)
