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Thelion vs Theion - What's the difference?

thelion | theion |

As nouns the difference between thelion and theion

is that thelion is the tip or peak of a nipple while theion is (archaic) the divine, especially a divine fire.

thelion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The tip or peak of a nipple.

    • Usage notes

    This word seems to have had very limited usage, and appears to only be documented in Webster's Third NID. It is not in current usage in the medical field, where the Latin word papilla is the standard term.

    Related terms

    * thelitis * thelium

    References

    , 1961

    theion

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) the divine, especially a divine fire
  • * 2004 , David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth , p. 205:
    • ...the human soul, assumed into Christ, is a theion striving ever after the theioteron, seeking the uncontainable plenitude of God.
  • * 2000 , Ilse Nina Bulhof and Laurens ten Kate, Flight of the Gods: Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology p. 50:
    • ''Heidegger's attempts to transform theology into "theiology" and thus to transform a thinking/speaking about God into a thinking/speaking of the divine (theion ) point in this direction.
  • * 1996 , Lucas Siorvanes, Proclus: Neo-Platonic Philosophy and Science , p.265:
  • * 1967 , , Greek Philosophical Terms: A Historical Lexicon , p. 169:
    • What appeared here, at the center of the Pythagorean tradition in philosophy, is another view of ''psyche'' that seems to owe little or nothing to the pan-vitalism or pan-deism (see ''theion'' ) that is the legacy of the Milesians.
    The impersonal 'divinity' (theion) has a longer history than the personal, god (theos).
  • * 1936 , Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche :
    • This question inquires into the first cause and highest existent ground of beings. It is the question of the theion''', a question that had already arisen at the beginning of metaphysics in Plato and Aristotle; that is to say, arisen from the essence of metaphysics. Because metaphysics, thinking the being as such, is approached by Being but thinks it on the basis of and with reference to beings, metaphysics must therefore say (legein) the '''theion in the sense of the highest existent ground.
  • (archaic) sulfur, especially in the context of fire and brimstone
  • * 1931 , Rev. Charles H. Pridgeon, Is Hell Eternal or Will God's Plan Fail? :
    • The word theion''' translated "brimstone" is exactly the same word '''theion which means "divine."

    See also

    * theory * logos

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