apophatism
noun
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Sense 1 noun
the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely `other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not)
Types & categories
- faith hypernym
Related & opposite
- cataphatism antonym
- doctrine of analogy antonym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | cataphatism |
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | doctrine of analogy |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | faith |