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Deific vs Deity - What's the difference?

deific | deity |

As an adjective deific

is divine, of or relating to a deity or deities.

As a noun deity is

the state of being a god; divine characteristics, godhead.

deific

English

Alternative forms

* deifical

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • divine, of or relating to a deity or deities
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=Ralph Waldo Trine, title=In Tune with the Infinite, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="The individual existence of man begins on the sense plane of the physical world, but rises through successive gradations of ethereal and celestial spheres, corresponding with his ever unfolding deific life and powers, to a destiny of unspeakable grandeur and glory. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1895, author=Mary Baker Eddy, title=Pulpit and Press, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Then you will find that one is as important a factor as duodecillions in being and doing right, and thus demonstrating deific Principle. }}

    deity

    English

    (wikipedia deity)

    Noun

    (deities)
  • The state of being a god; divine characteristics, godhead.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.10:
  • Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee .
  • A divine being; a god or goddess.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * household deity

    See also

    * cosmocrat * deism * god * godliness * theism

    References