Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A god or goddess.
- n. The essential nature or condition of being a god; divinity.
- n. God. Used with the.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Godhead; divinity; the attributes of a god; especially, the nature and essence of the one Supreme Being.
- n. [capitalized] God; the Supreme Being, or infinite self-existing Spirit: regularly with the definite article.
- n. A god; a divinity; a being to whom a divine or godlike nature is attributed; an object or a person worshiped as a god.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead.
- n. A god or goddess; a heathen god.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
Etymologies
- From Middle French deité, from Latin deitās, from deus ("god"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English deite, from Old French, from Late Latin deitās, divine nature, from Latin deus, god. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Without doubt the term deity was deliberately chosen, for it does not exclude a heathen interpretation.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
“The anti-abortion holy rollers should be reminded that their deity is the greatest single abortionist in history, having “caused” countless miscarriages through the millenia, all for some “divine purpose.””
“Your other question of the deity is a metaphysical one and is based on faith.”
“The council of Nice and the decision to make Christ a deity is historical fact.”
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“For a lot of people, positing a deity is a pretty straightforward form of inference to the best explanation — and for a lot of our history, given the dizzying complexity of the natural world, it was scarcely an unreasonable hypothesis.”
“This "deity" is popular among the drug using and selling people.”
“So, vojjor, the word for deity actually derives from the word for statue.”
Game of Thrones: How to Speak (and Curse!) Like the Dothraki
“The white men had come among them, and they were devoting too little time to fishing, and too much to a certain deity whose transient habitat was in countless black bottles.”
“Back in Ireland, the euhemerised deity is commemorated on 1 February.”
“Basically, between Gog, Magog, Persia, and legions of squealing teenagers, even an omnipotent deity is woefully outmatched.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘deity’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words Associated With Jesus
Words that indentify Jesus and His Salvation to those who seek Him.
hope, grace, love, faith, salvation, truth, eternity, heaven, god, holy spirit, bible, scripture and 191 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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Breaking free from "I before E"
Words that have an I after an E after a letter that's not C.
sheik, seize, weird, foreign, caffeine, apartheid, deity, heifer, leisure, being, either, height and 30 more...
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Words ending with ty
ability, dexterity, affinity, abnormality, identity, deity, poverty, animosity, duty, city, paty, majority and 3 more...
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words
my words. my mind. my gosh.
try not to enjoy it too much.git, ghoti, sauce, quail, querulous, quarrelsome, reliability, untoward, incongruities, fission, fanatic, apple and 206 more...
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My GRE Vocab
moniker, sobriquet, prerogative, aberration, aberrant, nuance, notorious, infamous, renown, allude, refer, content and 109 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Vocab ##5
appint, monarch, counterpart, muse, bestow, unwitting, aghast, admonish, wage, decree, cavalry, phalanx and 126 more...
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
corrosion, astonish, solace, ferment, continuum, kinesthetic, permeate, repose, caprice, cardinal, discourse, surrender and 610 more...
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GMAT
part of speech, frown, brow, immensely, immense, incomprehensible, toil, concision, concise, proper noun, hyphenated, dash and 190 more...
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Gotim
Aries, fire, chaos, destruction, Mars, aggression, bold, competetive, conflict, raw, black, red and 165 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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pop ups
erstwhile, allegiance, sacked, reinstate, vengeance, affluent, sedative, maverick, caricatives, abandoned, faux pas, ambience and 245 more...
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Theological Words
a priori, adiaphora, advent, agnosticism, amillennialism, anabaptists, postmillennialism, angel, animism, annihilationism, anthropic principle, anthropomorphic and 96 more...
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