different between apotheosis vs theosis

English

Etymology

From Latin apothe?sis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (apothé?sis), from verb ??????? (apotheó?, “deify”) (factitive verb formed from ???? (theós, “God”) with intensive prefix ???- (apo-)) + -??? (-sis, “forms noun of action”). Surface analysis apo- +? theo- +? -sis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p??.i????.s?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??p??.?i?o?.s?s/
• Rhymes: -??s?s

Noun

apotheosis (countable and uncountable, plural apotheoses)

1. The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.

   Synonym: deification

   • 1986, SRF Price, Rituals and Power, p. 75:

   • 2002, CE Newlands, Statius' Silvae and the Politics of Empire, p. 176:

2. Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.

   Synonyms: exaltation, glorification

   • 1974, Per Lord Hailsham, Smedleys Ltd v Breed [1974]2 All ER 21(HL) at 24:

3. A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).

   Synonyms: apex, paragon

   • 1925, William Carlos Williams, 'Edgar Allan Poe', In The American Grain, 1990, p. 232:
4. The best moment or highest point in the development of something, for example of a life or career; the apex, culmination, or climax (of a development).

   Synonyms: apex, climax, culmination, peak, pinnacle

5. (loosely) Release from earthly life, ascension to heaven; death.

   Synonym: death

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

6. (psychology) The latent entity that mediates between a person's psyche and their thoughts. The id, ego and superego in Freudian Psychology are examples of this.

Derived terms

• apotheosize
• apotheotic

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• apoth. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (apothé?sis), from verb ??????? (apotheó?, “deify”) (factitive verb formed from ???? (theós, “God”) with intensive prefix ???- (apo-)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.po.t?e?o?.sis/, [äp?t??e?o?s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.po.te?o.sis/, [?p?t?????s?is]

Noun

apothe?sis f (genitive apothe?sis); third declension

1. apotheosis, deification

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

References

• apotheosis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apotheosis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• apotheosis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apotheosis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin the?sis, from ecclesiastical Ancient Greek ?????? (thé?sis).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i????s?s/

Noun

theosis

1. (theology) The likeness to or union with a god; deification.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 440:

     For him, theosis or deification was the destination for human salvation, whose attainment Adam's sin in Eden had imperilled but not rendered impossible [...].

2. (theology) The process of attaining this state.

Translations

See also

• apotheosis

Anagrams

• hosties