home/glossary/Apophatism

Apophatism

nounid 9776·updated May 18, 2026
verified

the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely `other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not)

Attested in

No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Apophatisms
possessive
Apophatism's
pluralpossessive
Apophatisms'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
§1
the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely `other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely `other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not)
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.