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as in god
a being having superhuman powers and control over a particular part of life or the world
to the ancient Greeks, Zeus was the deity who ruled over the sky and weather, and Poseidon was god of the sea
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as in divinity
the quality or state of being divine
the repudiation of the claim of deity by the Japanese emperor after the end of World War II
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Evoking divinity and a potential abode for the kami, or sacred spirits, the colossal site-specific work spans 797 square feet across two walls in the foyer leading to The Shinto Shrine, enshrining the sun goddess, Amaterasu Oomikami, the Japanese sun goddess and a central deity in Shinto mythology.
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Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Basketball humans project rotations, basketball deities laugh — or something like that.
—Eric Koreen, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
The inscriptions also reference El, a deity associated with the Abrahamic God, while censuring the ancient pagan goddess Ba`alat.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Twenty-seven centuries later, a tech firm in western India built a robotic arm that performs āratī, rotating an oil lamp before a deity’s icon to dispel darkness.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
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Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Basketball humans project rotations, basketball deities laugh — or something like that.
—Eric Koreen, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
The inscriptions also reference El, a deity associated with the Abrahamic God, while censuring the ancient pagan goddess Ba`alat.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Twenty-seven centuries later, a tech firm in western India built a robotic arm that performs āratī, rotating an oil lamp before a deity’s icon to dispel darkness.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deity
Noun
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For whatever reason, the weather gods were certainly smiling on Venice this year.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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Temkin’s Olympus language includes an interpreter consisting of Greek gods, which must be asked to do things in the proper way.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Sep. 2025
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They’ve been tied to strength, divinity, and sacred energy.—
Essence,
Essence,
21 Aug. 2025
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Evoking divinity and a potential abode for the kami, or sacred spirits, the colossal site-specific work spans 797 square feet across two walls in the foyer leading to The Shinto Shrine, enshrining the sun goddess, Amaterasu Oomikami, the Japanese sun goddess and a central deity in Shinto mythology.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Deity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deity. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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