spirituality

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: spir=it=u=al=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

spirituality, n. [L. spiritualitas: cf. F. spiritualité.].

•  The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness.  [1913 Webster]

  "A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality."  [1913 Webster]

  "If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality."  [1913 Webster]

  "Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.  [1913 Webster]

  "During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof."  [1913 Webster]
•  An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.  [1913 Webster]

  "Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

spirituality

Christianity, Christlikeness, Christliness, angelicalness, beauty of holiness, bliss, bodilessness, fear of God, ghostliness, godlikeness, godliness, godly-mindedness, goodness, harmony, heavenliness, heavenly-mindedness, holiness, holy-mindedness, immateriality, immaterialness, impalpability, imponderability, incorporeality, incorporeity, inextension, intangibility, nonexteriority, occult phenomena, occultism, odor of sanctity, otherworldliness, psychical research, psychicism, psychics, psychism, pureness, pureness of heart, purity, righteousness, sainthood, saintlikeness, saintliness, saintship, sanctitude, sanctity, seraphicalness, shadowiness, spirit world, spiritual-mindedness, spirituousness, supernaturalism, the occult, unearthliness, unsubstantiality, unsubstantialness, unworldliness

ROGET THESAURUS

spirituality

Immateriality

N immateriality, immaterialness, incorporeity, spirituality, inextension, astral plane, personality, I, myself, me, ego, spirit, astral body, immaterialism, spiritualism, spiritualist, immaterial, immateriate, incorporeal, incorporal, incorporate, unfleshly, supersensible, asomatous, unextended, unembodied, disembodied, extramundane, unearthly, pneumatoscopic, spiritual, personal, subjective, nonobjective.