spirituality

英 [,sp?r?tj?'?l?t?] 美[,sp?r?t?u'?l?ti]

中頻詞

復數:?spiritualities;

spirituality (n.): early 15c., "the clergy," also "ecclesiastical property; things pertaining to the Church," from Middle French spiritualite, from Late Latin spiritualitatem (nominative spiritualitas), from Latin spiritualis (see spiritual). Meaning "quality of being spiritual" is from c. 1500; seldom-used sense of "fact or condition of being a spirit" is from 1680s. An earlier form was spiritualty (late 14c.).

English is blessed with multiple variant forms of many words. But it has made scant use of them; for every pair historic/historical; realty/reality, or luxuriant/luxurious there is a spiritualty/spirituality or a specialty/speciality, with two distinct forms, two senses requiring differentiation, hundreds of years gone by, and but little progress made in in sorting them out.

1. She displays none of the sanctimoniousness often associated with spirituality.: 在她身上絲毫未見圣職人員常有的那種故作虔誠。

2. This type of music has a negitive influence on our spirituality.: 這種音樂對我們的靈性有負面的影響.

3. We human are creature of spirituality living with meaning.: 我們人類是生活在有意義的精神領域里.

4. This is not the first time that scientists have investigated spirituality.: 這不是科學家首次研究靈性.

5. In my eyes , wisdom and spirituality are more important.: 祝愿其和更多人也包括自己能在有生之年達到上善若水的境界.