QUIETIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quietist mean? 

• QUIETIST (noun)
  The noun QUIETIST has 1 sense:

1. a religious mystic who follows quietism

  Familiarity information: QUIETIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUIETIST (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)