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Judaism vs Alchemy - What's the difference?

judaism | alchemy |

As nouns the difference between judaism and alchemy

is that judaism is while alchemy is (label) the ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry.

judaism

English

(wikipedia Judaism)

Alternative forms

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Noun

  • An Abrahamic religion tracing its origin to the Hebrew people of the ancient Middle East, as documented in their religious writings, the Tanakh.

    • Hypernyms

    * religion, Abrahamism, monotheism

    Coordinate terms

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    Related terms

    * Conservative Judaism * Jew * Jewish * Judaic * Judaica * Orthodox Judaism * Reconstructionist Judaism * Reform Judaism

    See also

    * Christianity * Islam * monotheism * Mosaism English words suffixed with -ism

    alchemy

    English

    (wikipedia alchemy)

    Noun

  • (label) The ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy .}}
  • (label) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
  • Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.

    • Derived terms

    * alchemical * alchemise and alchemize * alchemist * alchemistic * alchemistical

    See also

    * elixir of life * philosophers' stone

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