spirituality

English

Etymology

From Middle French spiritualité, from Late Latin spīrituālitās.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.tɪ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.tɪ/, [ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.ɾɪ]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌspɪɹ.ɪ.t͡ʃʉˈæl.ə.tɪ/, [ˌspɪɹ.ɪ.t͡ʃʉˈæl.ə.ɾɪ]

Noun

spirituality (countable and uncountable, plural spiritualities)

1. The quality or state of being spiritual.
   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
     , "The Ways of Wisdom are Ways of Pleasantness"

     a pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality

   • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

     If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest unto spirituality.

   • 1841, Edward Bickersteth, A Treatise of Prayer:

     Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come.

2. Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.
3. Appreciation for religious values.
4. (obsolete) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof.

5. (obsolete) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality.

Antonyms

• materialism

Translations

quality or state of being spiritual

• Arabic: رُوحَانِيَّة f (rūḥāniyya), رَوْحَانِيَّة f (rawḥāniyya), رُوحِيَّة f (rūḥiyya)
• Finnish: henkisyys (fi), hengellisyys (fi)
• Malayalam: ആത്മീയത (ml) (ātmīyata)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: åndelighet m or f

• Swedish: andlighet (sv) c
• Welsh: ysbrydolrwydd m
• Zazaki: rıhani c

concern for what is unseen and intangible

• Asturian: espiritualidá f
• Belarusian: духо́ўнасць f (duxóŭnascʹ)
• Catalan: espiritualitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 靈性／灵性 (zh) (língxìng)

• Dutch: spiritualiteit (nl) f
• Finnish: hengellisyys (fi)
• French: spiritualité (fr) f
• Galician: espiritualidade (gl) f
• German: Geistigkeit (de) f, Spiritualität (de) f
• Italian: spiritualità (it) f
• Japanese: 霊性 (れいせい, reisei)
• Kazakh: руханият (ruxaniät)
• Korean: 영성(靈性) (ko) (yeongseong)
• Malayalam: ആത്മീയത (ml) (ātmīyata)
• Navajo: hodiyin (shił hodiyin, my spirituality)
• Polish: duchowość (pl) f
• Portuguese: espiritualidade (pt) f
• Russian: духо́вность (ru) f (duxóvnostʹ)
• Spanish: espiritualidad f
• Tagalog: espiritwalidad
• Ukrainian: духо́вність f (duxóvnistʹ)

appreciation for religious values

• Finnish: uskonnollisuus (fi)

that which belongs to the church, as distinct from temporalities

• Finnish: hengelliset asiat

whole body of the clergy

• Finnish: kirkko (fi)

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• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} שאר רוח (sh"ar ruakh)