emanationism means the idea that everything emanates from something else, and that the original and most perfect things emanated directly from God. It carries an Arena rating of 1231, earned across 56 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, emanationism ranks #221 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #395 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #1,759 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #4,176 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words.
Why “emanationism” is a great word
EMANATIONISM — [Noun] The metaphysical doctrine that all reality proceeds from an ultimate source through a necessary and graded overflowing. From emanation (from the Latin emanare, 'to flow out') + the suffix -ism, denoting a system or doctrine. Unlike creationism (which posits a volitional act ex nihilo) or materialism (which reduces reality to a physical substrate), emanationism describes an involuntary diffusion where each successive layer is a dimmer reflection of the original perfection. It is light spilling from a singular sun and cooling into color; it is the hierarchy of echoes in a cavern; it is the fragrance that becomes the air long after the rose has wilted—a cosmology where to exist is to be a little further from the source, a little more alone.
Etymology
From emanation + -ism.
noun
- The idea that everything emanates from something else, and that the original and most perfect things emanated directly from God.
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