Synonyms for deity
ˈdi ɪ tide·ity

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1. deity, divinity, god, immortalnoun

   any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

   Synonyms:
   theology, graven image, divinity, divinity fudge, idol, god, immortal

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1. deitynoun

   Synonyms:
   divinity, godhead, the divine Nature

2. deitynoun

   Synonyms:
   (Myth.) god or goddess

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1. List of paraphrases for "deity":

   divinity, jackal, goddess, god

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1. Hugh Jackman:

   And I tell you, I’ve eaten more chickens — I’m so sorry to all the vegans and vegetarians and to the chickens of the world, literally the karma is not good for me. If the deity has anything related to chickens, I’m in trouble.

2. Bertrand Russell:

   What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

3. Dag Hammarskjld:

   God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

4. Samuel Adams:

   The Legislative has no Right to absolute arbitrary Power over the Lives and Fortunes of the People: Nor can Mortals assume a Prerogative not only too high for Men but for Angels, and therefore reserv’d for the Exercise of the Deity alone.

5. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

   As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.