quietism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The view that the proper role of philosophy is a broadly therapeutic or remedial one.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In its consistently logical form Quietism makes communion between man and God an impossibility by annulling the distinction between them, ultimately reducing God to a vague and empty abstraction, and dehumanizing man."
- "In von Hügel's estimation the real culprit that distorts “quiet” into Quietism, is any tendency to extreme dualism, particularly between body and soul."
- "The problem of Quietism or rather the problem of Quietism in its most corrupted forms and their immediate repercussions on a disciplinary, moral and sexual level led to the realization that the dangers that believers faced were as much inside the Church as outside."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁tis Proto-Italic *kʷjētis Latin quiēs Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Italic *-skō Latin -scō Latin quiēscō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin quiētusder. French quietder. Middle English quiete English quiet Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English quietism From quiet + -ism.