acosmistn.
/(ˌ)eɪˈkɒzmɪst/, U.S. /eɪˈkɑzməst/ Philosophy and Theology.
A person who believes in or advocates acosmism.Originally applied to Spinoza: see acosmism n.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > doctrine concerning God or a god > [noun] > acosmism > person
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1845 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. III. 145 Spinoza did not deny the existence of God; he denied the existence of the world: he was consequently an Acosmist, not an Atheist.
1909 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 6 500 Perhaps..it would be more correct to call him [sc. Spinoza] an acosmist.
1983 M. J. Inwood Hegel 402 There is no suggestion here that Hegel is an acosmist.
1993 D. Merkur Gnosis v. 112 Monistic Gnostics were not favorable to the world. Like Neoplatonists, they were acosmists. They rejected the world because they held matter to be an illusion.
Derivatives
acosˈmistic adj. [after German akosmistisch (1837 or earlier)]
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society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > doctrine concerning God or a god > [adjective] > acosmistic
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1854 A. Edersheim tr. H. M. Chalybäus Hist. Devel. Speculative Philos. 225 In his writings we never meet with the decided pantheism of Spinoza..a pantheism which thus is wholly acosmistic.
1899 W. R. Inge Christian Mysticism iv. 138 This judgment followed the appearance of a strongly pantheistic or acosmistic school of mystics.
1990 N. Loewenthal Communicating Infinite 171 An acosmistic ecstasy in which G–d is the only reality.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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