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Definition: Divinity |
DivinityNoun1. Any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force. 2. The quality of being divine; "ancient Egyptians believed in the divinity of the Pharaohs". 3. White creamy fudge made with egg whites. 4. The rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "divinity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: DivinitySynonyms: deity (n), divinity fudge (n), god (n), immortal (n), theology (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Divinity is seen as the existence of some entity(s), being(s), or spirit which is greater than mankind, or the sum of its parts.
There are many forms of divinity, based upon the religious beliefs of the person/people viewing the divine. In Christianity the concept of divinity is held in the Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In other forms of religion (such as the pre-Christian Norse religion) the divine becomes a pantheon of divine beings, each possessing or exemplifying a virture of daily life or emotion. In animist traditions, everything in the universe has a divine aspect.
In universities, divinity is sometimes used as an alternate name for the academic study of theology.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Divinity."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deity | Noun: Deity, Divinity; Godhead, Godship; Omnipotence, Providence; Heaven. |
Divineness, divinity. | |
Theology | Noun: theology (natural and revealed); theogony, theosophy; divinity; hagiology, hagiography; Caucasian mystery; monotheism; religion; religious persuasion, religious sect, religious denomination; creed; (belief); article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith, confession of faith. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Divinity |
| English words defined with "divinity": Aulic ♦ disbeliever, Divinities, Doorga ♦ Ebionite ♦ Godship ♦ Hicksite, Hirohito ♦ Indivinity ♦ Michinomiya Hirohito ♦ nonbeliever ♦ Pachacamac, Paulianist, Physico-theology, profaneness ♦ River god ♦ Sacellum, Sacrarium, Socinian, Subdivine ♦ Taranis, Theanthropical ♦ unbeliever, Ungod ♦ Vishnu. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "divinity": Bampton Lectures, BODY OF DIVINITY BOUND IN BLACK CALF, BRAHMA, Buncle ♦ Cerinthians ♦ Kings have Long Hands ♦ Lady Margaret Professor, Lord ♦ Macedonians, Margaret, Marrow Controversy ♦ Norrisian Professor ♦ Odd Numbers ♦ Quanquam ♦ S.T.P ♦ Unitarian, U'niversity ♦ Werwolf. (references) |
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Screenplays | They do love their divinity lessons. (The Wicker Man; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) Ya know, actually, I was accepted to Divinity school. (The Tao of Steve; writing credit: Duncan North; Greer Goodman) | |
Lyrics | I've dreamed of the divinity (Angels Would Fall; performing artist: Melissa Etheridge) | |
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 | Fifteen minutes later he was alone with his divinity. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Divinity [School] Library, Harvard College. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Divinity School, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tatsuo Miyake (student of divinity) / photograph by Ansel Adams. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francis Bacon | Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. |
Heraclitus | A man's character is his guardian divinity. |
John Donne | Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity. |
Lord Byron | Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity. |
Miguel de Cervantes | He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand. |
Phillips Brooks | Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Thus we may see how probable it is, that people that were naturally free, and by their own consent either submitted to the government of their father, or united together out of different families to make a government, should generally put the rule into one man's hands, and chuse to be under the conduct of a single person, without so much as by express conditions limiting or regulating his power, which they thought safe enough in his honesty and prudence; though they never dreamed of monarchy being Jure Divino, which we never heard of among mankind, till it was revealed to us by the divinity of this last age; nor ever allowed paternal power to have a right to dominion, or to be the foundation of all government. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There was at this moment an indescribable divinity within him which makes the multitudes fall back and make way before a man. |
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Civil Liberties | Burundi | In April the Government arrested the leader of an indigenous religious group and closed down his church after the leader's claims to divinity led to repeated clashes with a rival leader's adherents; the leader subsequently was released. (references) |
Economic History | Japan | Following World War II, state support was discontinued, and the Emperor disavowed divinity. (references) |
Madagascar | They believe that the dead join their ancestors in the ranks of divinity and that ancestors are intensely concerned with the fate of their living descendants. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian. |
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| "Divinity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.07% of the time. "Divinity" is used about 178 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.07% | 171 | 23,814 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.93% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 178 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "divinity": bachelor of Divinity ♦ Case divinity ♦ Divinity calf ♦ divinity fudge ♦ doctor of divinity ♦ master of Divinity ♦ the divinity. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "divinity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zot (creator, Dan, demiurge, Don, God, godhead, heaven, Lord, manager, master, Monsieur, mynheer, overlord, Sahib), teologji (theology), perëndi (deity, God, heaven, powers), perëndeshë (goddess), natyrë hyjnore, karakter hyjnor, hyjni (deity, God, godhead). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | معبود (enslaved, fetish, god, idol), لاهوت (theology), إله, ألهوية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | теология (theology), божество (deity, godhead, power), божественост (deity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 神性 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | teologie (theology), bohosloví, božství (godhead), bùh (God). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | خدا (Deity, God, Godhead, Heaven, Holy, Numen), الهیات (Theology), الوهیت (Godhead, Numen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jumaluus, jumalaisolento (deity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | divinité, théologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gottheit (deity, godhead, godhood, godship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θεότησ (godhead, godhood), θειότητα, θεολογία (theology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אלו"ות (deity, godhead). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | istenség (deity, epiphany, godhead), teológia (theology), isten (God, godhead, supreme being), hittudomány (theology), hittan, hitoktatás (catecheses, catechism, cateshesis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ketuhanan (deity, godness), keilahan (godliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | divinit (deity, divine, God, godhead, heavenliness), teologia (theology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 神性 , 神気 (mind, spirit, the elements), 神 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"せい (a new government or administration, application, authentic, dignity, direct Imperial rule, disposition, genuine, holiness, inborn nature, mind, nascent, nature, new birth, new face, new system, nova, petition, pure, rebirth, request, sacredness, theocracy, true), し"かく, し"き (encouragement, feelings, fretfulness, mind, novel, novelty, one's mental state or attitude, originality, sacred treasure, spirit, stimulation, tedium, the elements, the three sacred treasures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jeeoilys (theology), jeeaght (deity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | teologi, guddommelighet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ivinityday divindade (deity, god, godhead), teologia (theology). (various references) dumnezeire (godhead), divinitate (deity, godhead), teologie (theology). (various references) божественность (deity, godhead, supernality). (various references) bogoslovlje, božanstvenost. (various references) divinidad (divination). (various references) teologi (theology), kristendom (Christianity, scripture), gudom (deity, godhead). (various references) tapınılan şey, tanrılık (deity, godhead), tanrıbilim (divine, theology), tanrı (deity, father, God, heaven, the almighty, the creator, the deity, the divinity, the eternal, the godhead, the I infinite, the providence), kutsallık (halidom, holiness, sacredness, saintliness, sanctity), ilahiyat (divine, theology), ilâhilik, bir tür turta (divinity fudge). (various references) богослів'я, божество (deity, godhead, numen), божественність (deity, godhead). (various references) tính thần thánh thần thánh người đáng tôn sùng. (various references) dwyfoldeb (deity), duwdod (deity, godhead), diwinyddiaeth (theology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caeleste, caelestem, caelesti, caelestibus, caelestis, caelestium, coeles, divinitas, divinitatem, numenius. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | godcundnes. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Divinity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dainity, davinity, definity, devinity, difinity, diginity, diminuiti, Dipinti, Diviani, divini, Divinitie, divinityo, divintity, divinty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "divinity" (pronounced divi"nutē) |
| 5 | -i" n u t ē | affinity, alkalinity, femininity, infinity, masculinity, salinity, Trinity, vicinity, virginity. |
| 4 | -n u t ē | amenity, community, dignity, disunity, eternity, fraternity, humanity, immunity, impunity, indemnity, indignity, inhumanity, insanity, maternity, modernity, obscenity, opportunity, paternity, profanity, sanity, serenity, solemnity, unity, vanity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, ambiguity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, diversity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indestructibility, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, materiality, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, sanctity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-i-i-n-t-v-y" | |
-3 letters: nitid. | |
-4 letters: dint, inti, nidi, tidy, tiny, tivy, tyin, viny. | |
-5 letters: din, dit, ivy, nit, tin, yid, yin. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-i-i-n-t-v-y" | |
+2 letters: invalidity. | |
+3 letters: vendibility. | |
+4 letters: definitively, devitrifying, diminutively, indicatively, vindictively. | |
+5 letters: distinctively, individuality, nonadditivity. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 76 69 6E 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ...- .. -. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i v i n i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0076 0069 006E 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875887580758691 |
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