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PIETISM

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pietism mean?

• PIETISM (noun)
The noun PIETISM has 2 senses:

1. 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion
2. exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal

Familiarity information: PIETISM used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PIETISM (noun)

Sense 1

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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 German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

religiosity; religiousism; pietism; religionism

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

devoutness; religiousness (piety by virtue of being devout)

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