Synonyms for quietism

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kwahy-i-tiz-uh m

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkwaɪ ɪˌtɪz əm

Définition of quietism

Origin : 1680s, from Italian quietismo, literally "passiveness," from quieto "calm, at rest," from Latin quietus (see quiet (adj.)). Originally in reference to the mysticism of Miguel Molinos (1640-1697), Spanish priest in Rome, whose "Guida spirituale" was published 1675 and condemned by the Inquisition in 1685. Related: Quietist.

As in mysticism : noun occultism

Example sentences :

But, if politics lost by Godwin's quietism, literature gained.
Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford

And this system of female non-education or quietism still prevails.
Extract from : « Flatland » by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Together they worked for God and for what they believed to be his cause Quietism.
Extract from : « Women of the Teutonic Nations » by Hermann Schoenfeld

Even for the souls of the ‘deified,’ quietism is never right.
Extract from : « Ruysbroeck » by Evelyn Underhill

In 1698, a vicar in the neighbourhood of Dijon had been burnt for Quietism.
Extract from : « La Sorcire: The Witch of the Middle Ages » by Jules Michelet

Thus in his art he aimed at repose, the quietism of the Buddhists.
Extract from : « Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art » by John Gould Fletcher

But Brissenden was not a disciple of quietism, and he changed his attitude abruptly.
Extract from : « Martin Eden » by Jack London

Not to realise that, is the heresy of Quietism, of many mystics.
Extract from : « God The Invisible King » by Herbert George Wells

These were the rival books in a controversy about what was called “Quietism.”
Extract from : « The Existence of God » by Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon

Schiller's worldly circumstances, too, were of a kind well calculated to prevent excess of quietism.
Extract from : « The Life of Friedrich Schiller » by Thomas Carlyle

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