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Spiritualism

The quality or state of being spiritual.

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Belief 76% connected

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; rel…

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Internality 76% connected

The state of being internal or within; interiority.

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Inwardness 76% connected

Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct.

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Sensitive 74% connected

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

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Sensitive 74% connected

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

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Spiritualist 74% connected

One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.

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Spiritualist 74% connected

One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.

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Spiritism 92% connected

Spiritualsm.

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Spirituality 92% connected

The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness.

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Arianism noun · 86% connection

heretical doctrine taught by Arius that asserted the radical primacy of the Father over the Son

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Cognition noun · 86% connection

the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

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Cognitive content noun · 86% connection

the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

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Cognitive factor noun · 86% connection

something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result

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Cognitive operation noun · 86% connection

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…

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Cognitive process noun · 86% connection

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…

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Condensation noun · 86% connection

(psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams

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Deciding noun · 86% connection

the cognitive process of reaching a decision; "a good executive must be good at decision making"

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Docetism noun · 86% connection

the heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and his sufferings and death on the cross were appa…

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Doctrine noun · 86% connection

a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

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Ego noun · 86% connection

(psychoanalysis) the conscious mind

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Gnosticism noun · 86% connection

a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches

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Invalidation noun · 86% connection

when a person's thoughts and feelings are rejected, ignored, or judged.; "Invalidation is emotionally upsetting for anyone, but partic…

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Ism noun · 86% connection

a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

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Knowledge noun · 86% connection

the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

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Mental process noun · 86% connection

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…

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Monothelitism noun · 86% connection

the theological doctrine that Christ had only one will even though he had two natures (human and divine); condemned as heretical in th…

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Nestorianism noun · 86% connection

the theological doctrine (named after Nestorius) that Christ is both the son of God and the man Jesus (which is opposed to Roman Catho…

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Affinity noun · 78% connection

A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the m…

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Amma noun · 78% connection

An abbes or spiritual mother.

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Anagoge noun · 78% connection

The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.

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Anagogical adjective · 78% connection

Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saint…

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Angel noun · 78% connection

A spiritual, celestial being, superior to man in power and intelligence. In the Scriptures the angels appear as God's messengers.

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Animal adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the ani…

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Animastic adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to mind or spirit; spiritual.

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Annates n. pl. · 78% connection

The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form…

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Appropriate verb · 78% connection

To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.

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Appropriation noun · 78% connection

The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

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Appropriator noun · 78% connection

A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.

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Aridity noun · 78% connection

Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought.

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