Hesychast

English

Etymology

From Mediaeval Latin hesychasta, from ecclesiastical Greek ἡσυχαστής (hēsukhastḗs), from ἡσυχάζειν (hēsukházein, “to be quiet”), from ἥσυχος (hḗsukhos, “quiet”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhɛsɪkæst/

Noun

Hesychast (plural Hesychasts)

  1. (ecclesiastical history) A member of a school of quietist monks in fourteenth-century Greece and Byzantium.

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