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QUIETISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quietism mean?
• QUIETISM (noun)
The noun QUIETISM has 1 sense:
1. a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God
Familiarity information: QUIETISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("quietism" is a kind of...):
mysticism; religious mysticism (a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality)
Derivation:
quietist (a religious mystic who follows quietism)
Context examples
But Brissenden was not a disciple of quietism, and he changed his attitude abruptly.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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