SPIRITUAL BEING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spiritual being mean? 

• SPIRITUAL BEING (noun)
  The noun SPIRITUAL BEING has 1 sense:

1. an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events

  Familiarity information: SPIRITUAL BEING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPIRITUAL BEING (noun)

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Meaning:

An incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

spiritual being; supernatural being

Hypernyms ("spiritual being" is a kind of...):

belief (any cognitive content held as true)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spiritual being"):

deity; divinity; god; immortal (any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force)

aeon; eon ((Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe)

angel (spiritual being attendant upon God)

faerie; faery; fairy; fay; sprite (a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers)

disembodied spirit; spirit (any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings)

trickster (a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts)

Instance hyponyms:

God; Supreme Being (the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions)

Beelzebub; Devil; Lucifer; Old Nick; Prince of Darkness; Satan; the Tempter ((Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell)

Holonyms ("spiritual being" is a member of...):

occult; supernatural (supernatural forces and events and beings collectively)