spirituality
pronunciation
How to pronounce spirituality in British English: UK [ˌspɪrɪtʃuˈæləti]
How to pronounce spirituality in American English: US [ˌspɪrɪtʃuˈælɪti]
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- Noun:
- property or income owned by a church
- concern with things of the spirit
Word Origin
- spirituality (n.)
- early 15c., "the clergy," also "ecclesiastical property; things pertaining to the Church," from Middle French spiritualite, from Late Latin spiritualitatem (nominative spiritualitas), from Latin spiritualis (see spiritual). Meaning "quality of being spiritual" is from c. 1500; seldom-used sense of "fact or condition of being a spirit" is from 1680s. An earlier form was spiritualty (late 14c.). English is blessed with multiple variant forms of many words. But it has made scant use of them; for every pair historic/historical; realty/reality, or luxuriant/luxurious there is a spiritualty/spirituality or a specialty/speciality, with two distinct forms, two senses requiring differentiation, hundreds of years gone by, and but little progress made in in sorting them out.
Example
- 1. What is your plan for maintaining your spirituality ?
- 2. Practice your preferred form of spirituality .
- 3. Can emergence break the spell of reductionism and put spirituality back into nature ?
- 4. And evolved into a rich communication tool for entertainment , data , and spirituality .
- 5. Recognizing this truth in our hearts any problems can be adjusted bringing spirituality , health , and harmony into your life .