different between deity vs immanence

English

Etymology

From Middle French deité, from Latin deit?s.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?di?.?.t?/, /?de?.?.t?/, /?de???.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?di.?.ti/, [?di.?.?i], /?de?.?.ti/, [?de?.?.?i]
• Hyphenation: de?i?ty

Noun

deity (countable and uncountable, plural deities)

1. Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.X.4:

     Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee.

2. A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess. [from 14th c.]
   • 2000, Kenneth Seeskin, Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 23:

     The crux of monotheism is not only belief in a single deity but belief in a deity who is different from everything else.

Synonyms

• (a god): See Thesaurus:god

Hyponyms

• household deity

Related terms

Translations

See also

• cosmocrat
• deism
• god
• godliness
• theism

References

Anagrams

• Tidey, etyid

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French immanence.

Noun

immanence (countable and uncountable, plural immanences)

1. The state of being immanent; inherency.
2. The state of dwelling within and not extending beyond a given domain.
3. (philosophy, metaphysics, theology) The concept of the presence of deity in and throughout the real world; the idea that God is everywhere and in everything. Contrast transcendence.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with imminence or immanant.

Synonyms

• immanency

Translations

See also

• transcendence