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Zarathustrianism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Zoroaster's own doctrines as distinguished from later accretions (Zarathustricism, Zoroastrianism).

Word forms

Zarathustrianism

Etymology

From Zarathustra + -ian + -ism, coined by Hermann Lommel and advanced by Ilya Gershevitch in the Hegelian dialectic view of Zoroastrianism in terms of thesis, antithesis, synthesis. In this construct, 'Zarathustrianism' is the thesis, 'Zarathustricism' is the antithesis, and 'Zoroastrianism' the synthesis.

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