PIETISM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal

Synonyms:

pietism; religionism; religiosity; religiousism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("pietism" is a kind of...):

devoutness; religiousness (piety by virtue of being devout)

Derivation:

pietistic; pietistical (excessively or hypocritically pious)

Meaning:

17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Pietism" is a kind of...):

religious movement (a movement intended to bring about religious reforms)

Domain region:

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

Derivation:

pietistic; pietistical (of or relating to Pietism)