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QUIETIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quietist mean?
• QUIETIST (noun)
The noun QUIETIST has 1 sense:
1. a religious mystic who follows quietism
Familiarity information: QUIETIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A religious mystic who follows quietism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("quietist" is a kind of...):
mystic; religious mystic (someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension)
Derivation:
quietism (a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God)
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