Quietist (original) (raw)

Pronunciation (US):		(GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A religious mystic who follows quietism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("quietist" is a kind of...):

mystic; religious mystic (someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension)

Derivation:

quietism (a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God)

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