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DOCETISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and his sufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Docetism" is a kind of...):
heresy; unorthodoxy (a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion)
theological doctrine (the doctrine of a religious group)
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