deity

n. God, divine being, supreme being

This article is about the term "Deity" in the context of mysticism and theology. See God for details on monotheistic and henotheistic usages, as well as god (male deity) or goddess for details on polytheistic usages. For other uses, see either God (disambiguation) or Gods (disambiguation)See also: List of deities
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(n.)
The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works.
  

(n.)
A god or goddess; a heathen god.
  

Deity or God. Intelligence and will superior to the human, forming the intelligent and vital governing essence of the universe, whether this universe be large or small. The principal views as to the nature of deity may be classed as
1) pantheistic,
2) polytheistic,
3) henotheistic, and
4) monotheistic.
Pantheism, which views the divine as immanent in all nature and yet transcendent in its higher parts, is characteristic of certain Occidental philosophical systems and of all Oriental systems. Polytheism implies the recognition of an indefinite number of deific powers in the universe, the plural manifestations of the ever immanent, ever perduring, and manifest-unmanifest One. Polytheism is thus a logical development of pantheism. Henotheism is the belief in one god, but not the exclusion of others, such as is found in the Jewish scriptures, where the ancient Hebrews frankly worshiped a tribal deity and fully recognized the existence of other tribal deities. Monotheism is the belief in only one god, as is found in Christianity and Islam. These religions, in inheriting the Jewish tradition, have confounded this merely personal and local conception with the First Cause of the universe, which in theosophy would be called the formative cosmic Third Logos, thus producing an inconsistent idea of a God who is both infinite, delimited, and personal in character, with an intuition, however, of the necessarily impersonal cosmic intelligent root of all.
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Noun
1. any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
(synonym) divinity, god, immortal
(hypernym) spiritual being, supernatural being
(hyponym) Demogorgon
(member-holonym) pantheon
(derivation) deify