docetism
Meaning of docetism
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the doctrine, important in Gnosticism, that Christ's body was not human but either a phantasm or of real but celestial substance, and that therefore his sufferings were only apparent.
mid 19th century: from medieval Latin Docetae (the name, based on Greek dokein ‘seem’, given to a group of 2nd-century Christian heretics) + -ism.
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do-cetism
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