sacramentality means sacramental nature, character or quality. It carries an Arena rating of 1141, earned across 80 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sacramentality ranks #361 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #2,390 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #9,111 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #10,947 of 17,151 for The Improbable.
Why “sacramentality” is a great word
SACRAMENTALITY — [Noun] The inherent quality of being sacramental, whereby material reality is perceived to convey or participate in a spiritual grace. From sacramental (relating to a sacrament) + -ity (suffix forming abstract nouns expressing state or condition). Unlike sacramentalism, a doctrinal emphasis on rites, or ritualism, a formalistic adherence to forms, sacramentality is the immanent principle, a latent capacity for grace in the material world. It is the weight of a worn wedding band that embodies a vow, the shared loaf and cup that binds a community beyond sustenance, or the charged silence of an empty room after a moment of profound forgiveness—the quiet insistence that the material universe is not opaque, but profoundly legible.
Etymology
From sacramental + -ity.
noun
- Sacramental nature, character or quality.
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