deity

See also: $DEITY

English

Alternative forms

• deitie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French deité, from Latin deitās.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.ɪ.ti/, /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.ti/, [ˈdeɪ̯-]

  • Audio (UK); /ˈdiː.ɪ.ti/:

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  • Audio (UK); /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.ti/:

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.ə.ti/, [ˈdi.ə.ɾi], /ˈdeɪ.ə.ti/, [ˈdeɪ̯.ə.ɾi]
• Hyphenation: de‧i‧ty

Noun

deity (countable and uncountable, plural deities)

1. Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 4:

     Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee.

2. A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess. [from 14th c.]
   • 2000, Kenneth Seeskin, Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 23:

     The crux of monotheism is not only belief in a single deity but belief in a deity who is different from everything else.

Synonyms

• (a god): See Thesaurus:god

Hyponyms

• faineant deity
• household deity
• tutelary deity

Derived terms

• deityhood
• deityless
• deitylike
• deityship
• demideity
• multideity
• overdeity
• semideity
• subdeity

Related terms

• deicide
• deify

Translations

divinity — see divinity

a god or goddess — see also god,‎ God

• Ahom: 𑜏𑜦𑜂𑜫 (seṅ), 𑜇𑜣 (phī)
• Albanian: hyj (sq) m, hyjni (sq) m, perëndi (sq) m
• Arabic: إِلٰه (ar) m (ʔilāh), مَعْبُود m (maʕbūd)
• Belarusian: бо́ства n (bóstva), бажаство́ n (bažastvó)
• Bulgarian: божество́ (bg) n (božestvó)
• Catalan: deïtat (ca) f, divinitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神 (zh) (shén), 神明 (zh) (shénmíng), 神靈 / 神灵 (zh) (shénlíng)

• Crimean Tatar: mabut
• Czech: božstvo (cs) n
• Danish: guddom c, deitet c
• Dutch: godheid (nl) f
• Dzongkha: ལྷ (lha)
• Esperanto: dio (eo), diaĵo
• Fijian: kalou
• Finnish: jumala (fi), jumalatar (fi), jumalolento, jumaluus (fi)
• French: déité (fr) f, divinité (fr) f
• Galician: divinidade f
• Georgian: ღვთაება (ɣvtaeba), ღმერთი (ka) (ɣmerti)
• German: Gott (de) m, Gottheit (de) f
• Greek: θεότητα (el) f (theótita)
• Hebrew: אלוהים \ אֱלֹהִים (he) m (elohím), אֵל (he) m (el)
• Hindi: देवता (hi) m (devtā)
• Hungarian: istenség (hu), isten (hu)
• Ido: deo (io)
• Italian: deità, divinità (it) f
• Japanese: 神仏 (ja) (しんぶつ, shinbutsu), 神 (ja) (かみ, kami)
• Korean: 신 (ko) (sin)
• Latin: deus (la) m, deitas f, divinitas f,
• Latvian: dievība (lv) f
• Macedonian: божество n (božestvo)
• Malay: tuhan, dewa (ms) m, dewi f
• Norwegian: gud (no) m

  Bokmål: guddom m

  Nynorsk: guddom m

• Pela: jui⁵⁵
• Persian: ایزد (fa) (izad)
• Plautdietsch: Gott (nds) m
• Polish: bóstwo (pl) n, bożyszcze (pl) n
• Portuguese: deus (pt) m, deusa (pt) f, divindade (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਭਗਵਾਨ (bhagvān)
• Romanian: dumnezeu (ro) f, divinitate (ro) f
• Russian: божество́ (ru) n (božestvó)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: божа̀нство n

  Roman: božànstvo (sh) n

• Sinhalese: දෙවියන් (dewiyan)
• Slovak: božstvo n
• Slovene: božanstvo (sl) n
• Spanish: dios (es) m, diosa (es) f, deidad (es) f, divinidad (es) f
• Swedish: gudom (sv) c
• Tagalog: anito, diyus-diyusan, batha-bathalaan
• Tibetan: ལྷ (lha)
• Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎍 (ỉl)
• Ukrainian: божество́ (uk) n (božestvó)
• Urdu: ایزد (ezad)
• Vietnamese: thần (vi) (神)
• Yoruba: olukaluku

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Kannada: ^{(please verify)} ದೇವ (kn) (dēva)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 신성 (ko) (sinseong)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} zeitate (ro) f
• Slovak: (1, 2) ^{(please verify)} božstvo n, (2) ^{(please verify)} bôžik m
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} దైవం (te) (daivaṁ)

See also

• cosmocrat
• deism
• god
• godliness
• theism

Anagrams

• Tidey, etyid