different between deist vs geist

English

Alternative forms

• Deist
• deïst (rare)

Etymology

French déiste, from New Latin deista, from Latin Deus (“God”) + -ista (“-ist”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de???st/, /di???st/
• Hyphenation: deist

Adjective

deist (comparative more deist, superlative most deist)

1. (religion) of or relating to deism.

Translations

Noun

deist (plural deists)

1. (religion) a person who believes in deism.

Hyponyms

• pandeist
• panendeist
• polydeist

Coordinate terms

• (religionists) religionist; Baha'i,? Buddhist,? Christian,? deist,? Druid,? Eckist,? heathen,? Hindu,? Jain,? Jedi,? Jew,? Mormon,? Mormonist,? Muslim,? Odinist,? pagan,? Pastafarian,? Rastafarian,? Raëlian,? Shintoist,? Sikh,? Taoist,? Unitarian Universalist,? Yazidi,? Wiccan,? Zoroastrian ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}

Derived terms

• deistic
• deistical
• deistically

Translations

See also

• theist

Further reading

• deist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• deist in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• diest, diets, dites, diëts, edits, sited, stied, tides

Romanian

Etymology

From French déiste

Noun

deist m (plural dei?ti)

1. deist

Declension

Swedish

Noun

deist c

1. a deist

Declension

Anagrams

• diets, diset

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?ist/
• Hyphenation: de?ist

Noun

deist (definite accusative deisti, plural deistler)

1. (religion) a deist

Declension

English

Etymology

From German Geist (“spirit, ghost, mind”). Doublet of ghost.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?st

Noun

geist (plural geists)

1. Ghost, apparition.
   • 1877, The spiritual magazine:

     The geists eat and drink, but only as geists — not as spirits. ' We have dined,' they say ' sumptuously.' A vapour- ... If dead men tell no tales, their geists will tell them, if they find opportunity.

   • 1996, Stephen Barker, Excavations and Their Objects:

     [...] it makes no difference whether these figures were real, corporeal beings or not, since each one, in terms of Freud's (auto) aesthetic, is a spirit, a geist, a complex function of Freud's worldview.

2. Spirit (of a group, age, era, etc).
   • 1995, Donald Pizer, The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism:

     [...] a term badly applied, as the method is neither a historicism (the belief that each era or period has a geist, principle of identity, or a definable sense of destiny) nor new.

Related terms

• poltergeist
• zeitgeist

References

• OED, geist

Anagrams

• gites, gîtes, tiges

Estonian

Noun

geist

1. elative singular of gei

Old High German

Alternative forms

• gheist, keist

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz.

Noun

geist m (plural geista)

1. spirit

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: geist
  • German: Geist
    • ? English: geist
    • ? Danish: gejst
    • ? Swedish: geist
    • ? Norwegian Bokmål: geist
  • Hunsrik: Geest, Geist
  • Luxembourgish: Geescht
  • Yiddish: ?????? (gayst)