theology Any doctrine that asserts the separate existence of God.

Roget 992: sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy^†; demonology, demonomy^†, demonship^†; diablerie [Fr.], bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism^†; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism^†; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism (Esquimaux), vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force^†; electrobiology^†, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning.    divination etc. (prediction) 511; sortilege^†, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae^†; hocus-pocus etc. (deception) 545.    ... show more

Roget 450: intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties; faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius; brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers; wit etc. 498; ability etc. (skill) 698; wisdom etc. 498; Vernunft [G.], Verstand [G.].    soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis [Lat.], divina particula aurae [Lat.], heart's core; the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle.    brain, organ of thought, seat of thought; sensorium^†, sensory; head, headpiece; pate, noddle^†, noggin, skull, scull, pericranium [Med.], cerebrum, cranium, brainpan^†, sconce, upper story.    [in computers] [Comp.] central processing unit, CPU; arithmetic and logical unit, ALU.    [Science of mind] metaphysics; psychics, psychology; ideology; mental philosophy, moral philosophy; philosophy of the mind; pneumatology^†, phrenology; craniology [Med.], cranioscopy [Med.].    ideality, idealism; transcendentalism, spiritualism; immateriality etc. 317; universal concept, universal conception.    metaphysician, psychologist etc. ... show more

The belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium).

Polish: duchowość, spirytualizm

Concern with things of the spirit.

synonyms: otherworldliness, spiritism, spirituality.

Roget 317: immateriality, immaterialness; incorporeity^†, spirituality; inextension^†; astral plane.    personality; I, myself, me; ego, spirit etc. (soul) 450; astral body; immaterialism^†; spiritualism, spiritualist.    ... show more

Dutch: spiritisme, spiritualiteit