Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or quality of being divine.
- n. The godhead; God. Used with the.
- n. A deity, such as a god or goddess.
- n. Godlike character.
- n. Theology.
- n. A soft white candy, usually containing nuts.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character of being divine; deity; godhead; the nature of God; divine nature.
- n. [capitalized] God; the Deity; the Supreme Being: generally with the definite article.
- n. In general, a celestial being; a divine being, or one regarded as divine; a deity.
- n. That which is divine in character or quality; a divine attribute; supernatural power or virtue.
- n. The science of divine things; the science which treats of the character of God, his laws and moral government, the duties of man, and the way of salvation; theology: as, a system of divinity; a doctor of divinity.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The property of being divine, of being like a god or God.
- n. countable A deity (a god, goddess or God).
- n. uncountable The study of religion or religions.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead.
- n. The Deity; the Supreme Being; God.
- n. A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.
- n. A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.
- n. Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe.
- n. The science of divine things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology.
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
- n. white creamy fudge made with egg whites
- n. the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth
- n. the quality of being divine
Etymologies
- Latin divinitas (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Let me give something that will lead each one to the knowledge of the divinity of every human soul, something that will lead each one to the conscious realization of _his own divinity_, with all its attendant riches, and glories, and powers, -- let me succeed in doing this, and I can then well afford to be careless as to whether the critics praise or whether they blame.”
In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty
“To maintain the obnoxious claim that only "your" version of divinity is real and everybody else's experience of God is delusionary only disses other people and pisses them off.”
Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists
“From this concept also comes the notion that divinity is both eminent (internal) and transcendent (external).”
“Is this because they are the so called “Chosen People,” the answer of divinity is one of speculation and cannot really be answered.”
“More likely, the divinity is too busy to bother, though.”
Arguments, agreements, advice, answers, articulate announcements
“We are not being taught to love a material world in which the immanent divinity is manifest.”
“The whole premise of needing an ‘organization’ to find divinity is not only idiotic, but inherently invalid.”
Think Progress » What Americans Want In A Supreme Court Justice
“It is sometimes called divinity fudge, as it is a textural cross between fudge and marshmallow, dense, light and smooth all at the same time.”
“And finally, all humans will understand that marriage is about teamwork, the teamwork of two souls who have created a holy team to do the holy work of life itself, which is the work of growth and the expression of divinity through the experience of unity.”
“Mention but the word divinity, and our sense of the divine is clouded.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘divinity’.
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RELI - Christian doctrines
infallibility, inerrancy, communicable attr..., incommunicable at..., fortuitous incarn..., atonement, hypostatic union, mystical union, spirit-baptism, sanctification, indwelling, fruits of the Hol... and 90 more...
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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 11250 more...
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confectionary
lollies sweets
caramel gets 48 hits
chocolate gets 112 hits
nonpareil 83 hitsconfectionary, chocolate, chew, alcorza, taffy, lolly, sweets, blackball, bonbon, brickle, bubblegum, cachou and 137 more...
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Words from Alanis Morissette Songs
Did you forget about me, Mr. Duplicity?!
marinate, vacillated, providence, unabashedly, divinity, masochistic, frailty, disillusionment, antibiotics, kudo, duplicity, chardonnay
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RELI - properties of the Christian God
eternity, holiness, omnipotence, omniscience, omnibenevolence, omnipresence, immortality, goodness, aseity, graciousness, immanence, immutability and 27 more...
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dickinsonian
psalteries, enamoring, estates, whim, calyx, hoisted, nought, pentateuchal, retina, obviated, revelation, stalactite and 193 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 Most Beautiful Words in the Engli...
mellifluous, obscure, star-crossed, undulating, solstice, messiah, audacious, solace, twilight, wanderlust, lovelorn, byzantine and 219 more...
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Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. 1920
A list of difficult words for L2-12 learners.
Faust, erection, metropolitan, splendor, shabby, conservatives, cherished, inconvenient, clung, acoustics, coupe, scramble and 261 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, D
dodecahedron, din, diglyceride, dysphotopsia, decoction, deboss, diatonic, dithyramb, divagate, discalced, dishdasha, daft and 281 more...
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Noesis
Mind or Mind Altering
example: psychotomimetic
( _mark, personal list, randomness )
related:
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (D)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
desert rose, dabble, daffodil, dagger, dairymaid, daisy, damask, damson, dappled, dart, dashed, dauphin and 111 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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destruction, delirium, drama, dream, damn, duality, divine, drug, deliberate, disgust, death, demon and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for divinity.

ofravens I came
God-fathered into the world from my mother's belly:
Her wide bed wore the stain of divinity.
from "Electra on Azalea Path," by Sylvia Plath Apr 8, 2008