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zarathustrianism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
zarathus-tri-an-ism
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Zoroaster's own doctrines as distinguished from later accretions (Zarathustricism, Zoroastrianism).

Literary; Uncountable

Etymology

From Zarathustra + -ian + -ism, coined by Hermann Lommel and advanced by Ilya Gershevitch in the Hegelian dialectic view of Zoroastrianism in terms of thesis, antithesis, synthesis. In this construct, 'Zarathustrianism' is the thesis, 'Zarathustricism' is the antithesis, and 'Zoroastrianism' the synthesis.

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Questions

What does zarathustrianism mean?
Zoroaster's own doctrines as distinguished from later accretions (Zarathustricism, Zoroastrianism).
Where does zarathustrianism come from?
From Zarathustra + -ian + -ism, coined by Hermann Lommel and advanced by Ilya Gershevitch in the Hegelian dialectic view of Zoroastrianism in terms of thesis, antithesis, synthesis. In this construct, 'Zarathustrianism' is the thesis, 'Zarathustricism' is the antithesis, and 'Zoroastrianism' the synthesis.

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