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A form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God
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quietism
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, from Italian quietismo , literally "passiveness," from quieto "calm, at rest," from Latin quietus (see quiet (adj.)). Originally in reference to the mysticism of Miguel Molinos (1640-1697), Spanish priest in Rome, whose "Guida spirituale" was published ...
Wikipedia
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Quietism is the name given (especially in Roman Catholic Church theology) to a set of Christian beliefs that rose in popularity in through France , Italy , and Spain during the late 1670s and 1680s, were particularly associated with the writings of Miguel ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quietism \Qui"et*ism\, n. [Cf. F. qui['e]tisme.] Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction. (Eccl. Hist.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Her peculiar mixture of vehemence and quietism caused people discomfort.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A form of mysticism involving quiet contemplation. 2 A state of passive quietness.
Usage examples of quietism.
The doctrine I am presenting is the very opposite of quietism, since it declares, "There is no reality except in action.
You see that it can not be taken for a philosophy of quietism, since it defines man in terms of action.
The quietism and search for new ways to "opt out" or "cop out" that characterizes certain (though not all) hippies may be less motivated by their loudly expressed aversion for the values of a technological civilization than by an unconscious effort to escape from a pace of life that many find intolerable.