Definitions for quietism

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quietism qui·et·ism

Spelling: [kwahy-i-tiz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈkwaɪ ɪˌtɪz əm/

Quietism is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in quietism (eiimqstu).

Definitions for quietism

noun

1. a form of religious mysticism taught by Molinos, a Spanish priest, in the latter part of the 17th century, requiring extinction of the will, withdrawal from worldly interests, and passive meditation on God and divine things; Molinism.
2. some similar form of religious mysticism.
3. mental or bodily repose or passivity.

Origin of quietism

First recorded in 1680-90, quietism is from the Italian word quietismo orig., prayer in a state of quietude. See quiet², -ism

Examples for quietism

Together they worked for God and for what they believed to be his cause quietism.

These were the rival books in a controversy about what was called “quietism.”

Even for the souls of the ‘deified,’ quietism is never right.

Thus in his art he aimed at repose, the quietism of the Buddhists.

Schiller's worldly circumstances, too, were of a kind well calculated to prevent excess of quietism.

And this system of female non-education or quietism still prevails.

But, if politics lost by Godwin's quietism, literature gained.

Not to realise that, is the heresy of quietism, of many mystics.

But Brissenden was not a disciple of quietism, and he changed his attitude abruptly.

In 1698, a vicar in the neighbourhood of Dijon had been burnt for quietism.