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Definition: Quietist |
QuietistNoun1. A religious mystic who follows quietism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quietist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1826. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Quietist (A). One who believes that the most perfect state of man is when the spirit ceases to exercise any of its functions, and is wholly passive. This sect has cropped up at sundry times; but the last who revived it was Michael Molinos, a Spanish priest, in the seventeenth century. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: Quietist |
| English words defined with "quietist": Hesychast. (references) |
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| "Quietist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Quietist" is used about 7 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) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
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| Language | Translations for "quietist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | طمأنيني. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | quiétiste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | quetistisch, quetist. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ηρεμόφρων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ietistquay quietista. (various references) кві"тист. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "quietist": quietistic, quietists. (additional references) | |
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"Quietist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: quietish, quievit, quitest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "quietist" (pronounced kwī"utust) |
| 8 | k w ī" u t u s t | quietest. |
| 5 | -u t u s t | anesthetist, separatist. |
| 4 | -t u s t | absolutist, apprenticed, artist, bluntest, brightest, clarinetist, cornettist, cultist, dentist, elitist, faintest, fastest, fattest, fittest, greatest, hottest, latest, leftist, librettist, lightest, neatest, neuroscientist, noticed, orthodontist, remotest, rightist, scientist, shortest, slightest, smartest, softest, strictest, sweetest, swiftest, tightest, unnoticed, wettest, whitest. |
| 3 | -u s t | ablest, abolitionist, abortionist, accompanist, activist, agonist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anthropologist, anticommunist, apologist, aquarist, archaeologist, archivist, arsonist, atheist, August, ballast, balloonist, barest, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, boldest, botanist, bravest, breakfast, briefest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, cartoonist, catalyst, cellist, chauvinist, cheapest, choicest, classicist, cleanest, closest, coldest, colonialist, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, conversationalist, coolest, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cyclist, darkest, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, densest, dermatologist, determinist, direst, dirtiest, dishonest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, exorcist, expressionist, extremist, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, federalist, feminist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, finest, firmest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, forest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funnest, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gymnast, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harnessed, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hugest, humblest, humorist, hygienist, idealist, ideologist, illusionist, immunologist, imperialist, impressionist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, interest, internationalist, internist, interventionist, isolationist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, laziest, leanest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, machinist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, meanest, medalist, mercantilist, merest, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, misogynist, modernist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, nearest, neediest, neurologist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noninterest, novelist, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, opportunist, organist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, pianist, polemicist, poorest, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, protagonist, protectionist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, racist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, receptionist, reddest, refocused, reforest, repurchased, reservationist, reservist, resurfaced, revolutionist, rheumatologist, richest, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, secessionist, secularist, segregationist, seismologist, semifinalist, serologist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, soonest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, survivalist, tallest, tannest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thickest, thinnest, thorniest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unionist, unkindest, urologist, violinist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, widest, wildest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-q-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: quiets. | |
-3 letters: etuis, quest, quiet, quite, quits, suite, titis. | |
-4 letters: etui, quit, sett, site, stet, suet, suit, test, tets, ties, titi, tits, tuis, tuts. | |
-5 letters: its, sei, set, sit, sue, suq, tet, tie, tis, tit, tui, tut, use, uts. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-q-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: quietists. | |
+2 letters: quantities, quietistic, squintiest. | |
+3 letters: antiquities, equidistant, equitations. | |
+4 letters: quaternities. | |
+5 letters: cinquecentist, disquantitied, disquantities, equidistantly, quotabilities, tranquilities, ventriloquist. | |
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