anthroposophy

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Pronunciation
/ˌænθɹəˈpɑsəfi/
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Definition of anthroposophy

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, uncountable)Knowledge or understanding of human nature.
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noun

  1. (archaic, uncountable)Knowledge or understanding of human nature.
  2. (uncountable)A philosophy founded in the early 20th century by the esotericist Rudolf Steiner (also capitalized as Anthroposophy), postulating the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development.
    “Anthroposophy was having definite effects. I couldn't take any of this to heart. Other-worldliness tinged it all and every little while my spirit seemed to dissociate itself.”

name

  1. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of anthroposophy.

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Etymology

From anthropo- + -sophy, from Renaissance Latin anthroposophia (attested in Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, d. 1535, and Thomas Vaughan, d. 1666), popularized from the 1910s via German Anthroposophie (Rudolf Steiner, 1861–1925).

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