deity

deity

See also: $DEITY

English

Etymology

From Middle French deité, from Latin deitās.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.ɪ.tɪ/, /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.tɪ/, /ˈdeɪ̯ə.tɪ/

  • /ˈdiː.ɪ.tɪ/, UK

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  • /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.tɪ/, UK

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.ə.ti/, [ˈdi.ə.ɾi], /ˈdeɪ.ə.ti/, [ˈdeɪ.ə.ɾi]
• Hyphenation: de‧i‧ty

Noun

deity (countable and uncountable, plural deities)

1. Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, page 4:

     Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee.

2. A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess. [from 14th c.]
   • 2000, Kenneth Seeskin, Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 23:

     The crux of monotheism is not only belief in a single deity but belief in a deity who is different from everything else.

Synonyms

• (a god): See Thesaurus:god

Hyponyms

• faineant deity
• household deity
• tutelary deity

 

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to deity

• deicide
• deify

Translations

divinity — see divinity

a god — See also translations at god,‎ God

Albanian: hyj (sq) m, hyjni (sq) m, perëndi (sq) m Arabic: إِلٰه‎ (ar) m (ʾilāh), مَعْبُود‎ m (maʿbūd) Belarusian: бо́ства n (bóstva), бажаство́ n (bažastvó) Bulgarian: божество́ (bg) n (božestvó) Catalan: deïtat (ca) f, divinitat (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 神 (zh) (shén), 神明 (zh) (shénmíng), 神靈／神灵 (zh) (shénlíng) Crimean Tatar: mabut Czech: božstvo (cs) n Danish: guddom c, deitet c Dutch: godheid (nl) f Dzongkha: ལྷ (lha) Esperanto: dio (eo), diaĵo Fijian: kalou Finnish: jumala (fi), jumalatar (fi), jumalolento, jumaluus (fi) French: déité (fr) f, divinité (fr) f Galician: divinidade f Georgian: ღვთაება (ɣvtaeba), ღმერთი (ka) (ɣmerti) German: Gott (de) m, Gottheit (de) f Greek: θεότητα (el) f (theótita) Hebrew: אלוהים \\ אֱלֹהִים‎ (he) m (elohím), אֵל‎ (he) m (el) Hindi: देवता (hi) m (devtā) Hungarian: istenség (hu), isten (hu) Ido: deo (io) Italian: deità, divinità (it) f Japanese: 神仏 (ja) (しんぶつ, shinbutsu), 神 (ja) (かみ, kami) Korean: 신 (ko) (sin) Latin: deus (la) m, deitas f, divinitas f, Latvian: dievība f Macedonian: божество n (božestvo) Malay: tuhan, dewa m, dewi f Norwegian: gud (no) m Bokmål: guddom m Nynorsk: guddom m Pela: jui⁵⁵ Persian: ایزد‎ (fa) (izad) Plautdietsch: Gott (nds) m Polish: bóstwo (pl) n, bożyszcze (pl) n Portuguese: deus (pt) m, deusa (pt) f, divindade (pt) f Punjabi: ਭਗਵਾਨ (bhagvān) Romanian: dumnezeu (ro) f, divinitate (ro) f Russian: божество́ (ru) n (božestvó) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: божа̀нство n Roman: božànstvo (sh) n Sinhalese: දෙවියන් (dewiyan) Slovak: božstvo n Slovene: božanstvo (sl) n Spanish: dios (es) m, diosa (es) f, deidad (es) f, divinidad (es) f Tagalog: anito, diyus-diyusan, batha-bathalaan Tibetan: ལྷ (lha) Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎍 (ỉl) Ukrainian: божество́ (uk) n (božestvó) Urdu: ایزد‎ (ezad) Vietnamese: thần (vi) Yoruba: olukaluku

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Kannada: (please verify) ದೇವ (kn) (dēva) Korean: (please verify) 신성 (ko) (sinseong) Romanian: (please verify) zeitate (ro) f Slovak: (1, 2) (please verify) božstvo n, (2) (please verify) bôžik m Telugu: (please verify) దైవం (te) (daivaṁ)

See also

• cosmocrat
• deism
• god
• godliness
• theism

 

References

1. The American Heritage Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1996, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Tidey, etyid