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SCIENTOLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Scientology mean?
• SCIENTOLOGY (noun)
The noun SCIENTOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. a new religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1955 and characterized by a belief in the power of a person's spirit to clear itself of past painful experiences through self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment
Familiarity information: SCIENTOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A new religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1955 and characterized by a belief in the power of a person's spirit to clear itself of past painful experiences through self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Church of Scientology; Scientology
Hypernyms ("Scientology" is a kind of...):
faith; organized religion; religion (an institution to express belief in a divine power)
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