DOCETISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Docetism mean? 

• DOCETISM (noun)
  The noun DOCETISM has 1 sense:

1. the heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and his sufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real

  Familiarity information: DOCETISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOCETISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and his sufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Docetism" is a kind of...):

heresy; unorthodoxy (a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion)

theological doctrine (the doctrine of a religious group)