Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

theopathy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: theopa-thy
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The capacity of a person to worship, or to experience a religious belief

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Here language itself reflects the feeling that the divine pathos, the passion of the "pathetic God" who "yearned" to be known, presupposes as its correlate a theopathy in the human being whose God He is."
"A new characteristic can be added to the description of prayer: the manifestation of self to other through speech, an agonistic speech struggling for its truth, is an ordeal, an undergoing of God, a suffering of God, a theopathy."

Etymology

From theo- + -pathy.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: theo
Suffix: pathy

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

theopathies (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

theopath theopathic

Questions

What does theopathy mean?: The capacity of a person to worship, or to experience a religious belief
Where does theopathy come from?: From theo- + -pathy.

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