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Zarathustrianism

Zarathustrianism noun: zoroaster's own doctrines as distinguished from later accretions (Zarathustricism, Zoroastrianism).

Noun

Zarathustrianism (uncountable)

  1. (literary) Zoroaster's own doctrines as distinguished from later accretions (Zarathustricism, Zoroastrianism).

Origin of Zarathustrianism

From Zarathustra + -ian + -ism, coined by Hermann Lommel and advanced by Ilya Gershevitch in the Hegelian dialectic view of Zoroastrianism in terms of thesis, antithesis, synthesis. In this construct, 'Zarathustrianism' is the thesis, 'Zarathustricism' is the antithesis, and 'Zoroastrianism' the synthesis.

Questions about Zarathustrianism

What does Zarathustrianism mean?
Zarathustrianism means zoroaster's own doctrines as distinguished from later accretions (Zarathustricism, Zoroastrianism).
What part of speech is Zarathustrianism?
Zarathustrianism is a noun.

Words near Zarathustrianism in the dictionary

  1. Zarathushtra
  2. Zarathustra
  3. Zarathustran
  4. Zarathustrans
  5. Zarathustrian
  6. Zarathustrianism
  7. Zarathustrians
  8. Zarathustric
  9. Zarathustricism
  10. Zarathustrism
  11. zaratite

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