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APOPHATISM

• APOPHATISM (noun)
The noun APOPHATISM has 1 sense:

1. the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely 'other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not)

Familiarity information: APOPHATISM used as a noun is very rare.

• APOPHATISM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely 'other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("apophatism" is a kind of...):

faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)

Antonym:

cataphatism (the religious belief that God has given enough clues to be known to humans positively and affirmatively (e.g., God created Adam 'in his own image'))

doctrine of analogy (the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; language can point in the right direction but any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate)

"Keep no more cats than catch mice."
(English proverb)
"Do not hide like a fly under the tail of a horse."
(Albanian proverb)
"The most praised form of fluency is silence when talk isn't wise."
(Arabic proverb)
"Be patient with a bad neighbor. Maybe he’ll leave or a disaster will take him out."
(Egyptian proverb)

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