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SPIRITUALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spirituality mean? 

SPIRITUALITY (noun)
  The noun SPIRITUALITY has 2 senses:

1. property or income owned by a churchplay

2. concern with things of the spiritplay

  Familiarity information: SPIRITUALITY used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPIRITUALITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Property or income owned by a church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

church property; spirituality; spiritualty

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

belongings; holding; property (something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone)

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

temporality; temporalty (the worldly possessions of a church)

benefice; ecclesiastical benefice (an endowed church office giving income to its holder)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Concern with things of the spirit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

otherworldliness; spiritism; spiritualism; spirituality

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

internality; inwardness (preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values))

Derivation:

spiritual (concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul)


 Context examples 


In ways it seemed to impugn her high spirituality.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“There is a spirituality about the face, however”—she gently turned it towards the light—“which the typewriter does not generate.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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