neo-pantheism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any revived or reconceived variation of pantheism, the belief that the Universe is sacred and should be revered; any of a number of modern form of present day renditions of pantheism, as distinguished from earlier perspectives.
Example Sentences
- "The founders of Neo-Pantheism... have no wish for a moment to depreciate the world that has gone before them; and, therefore, not that portion of it which, though they know it not, still subsists in pristine strength, and will alone survive the coming catastrophe!"
- "But Aristotle's Absolute had personality without will; the Absolute of German neo-pantheism has, or rather is, will without personality; for originally it is without self-consciousness."
- "Neither the God of the old Pantheism nor that of the neo-pantheism of Froebel is the all-seeing, all-loving Father to whom the weary and the suffering turn for rest and consolation."
- "This neo-pantheism is wide-spread enough to induce one of our leading publishing houses to reprint Seeley's "Natural Religion," a treatise once famous but lately out of print."
- "Science perhaps never slid as far into neo-pantheism and neo-nihilism as Kelvin feared, and many physicists (and others) retained their confidence in the ether well into the 1920s and 1930s."
- "The "Trinitarian" World of Neo-Pantheism: On Panentheism and Epistemology"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nu Proto-Indo-European *néwos Proto-Hellenic *néwos Ancient Greek νέος (néos) Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der. English neo- English pantheism English neo-pantheism From neo- + pantheism.