Deity vs Divinity - What's the difference?
deity | divinity |
The state of being a god; divine characteristics, godhead.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.10:
A divine being; a god or goddess.
(uncountable) The property of being divine, of being like a god or God.
* Shakespeare
(countable) A deity.
A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.
* Cheyne
(uncountable) The study of religion or religions.
A type of confectionery made with egg whites, corn syrup, and white sugar.
Divinity is a hypernym of deity.
Divinity is a synonym of deity.
As nouns the difference between deity and divinity
is that deity is the state of being a god; divine characteristics, godhead while divinity is the property of being divine, of being like a god or God.deity
English
(wikipedia deity)Noun
(deities)- Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* household deitySee also
* cosmocrat * deism * god * godliness * theismReferences
divinity
English
Noun
- They say there is divinity in odd numbers.
- God employing these subservient divinities
- Harvard Divinity School has been teaching theology since 1636.