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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

cataphatic en · ADJ

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καταφατικός (kataphatikós, “affirmative”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to the expression of God in terms of what God is, rather than in terms of what God is not (apophatic).
  2. (broadly, not-comparable) That which actively defines a thing by describing what is characteristic of it.

Forms

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Antonyms

apophatic

Deriveds

cataphatically

Relateds

cataphatism

Translations (3)

pl katafatyczny (pertaining to the expression of God in terms of what God is) · de kataphatisch (pertaining to the expression of God in terms of what God is) · fr cataphatique (pertaining to the expression of God in terms of what God is)