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PIETISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
Synonyms:
pietism; religionism; religiosity; religiousism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("pietism" is a kind of...):
devoutness; religiousness (piety by virtue of being devout)
Derivation:
pietistic; pietistical (excessively or hypocritically pious)
Sense 2
Meaning:
17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Pietism" is a kind of...):
religious movement (a movement intended to bring about religious reforms)
Domain region:
Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)
Derivation:
pietistic; pietistical (of or relating to Pietism)
