anthroposophy
English
Etymology
anthropo- + -sophy, from a 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).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌænθɹəˈpɑsəfi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌænθɹəˈpɒsəfi/
Noun
anthroposophy (uncountable)
- Human wisdom; knowledge or understanding of human nature.
- A spiritual movement inaugurated by Rudolf Steiner (also capitalized as Anthroposophy), postulating the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development.
Derived terms
Translations
a spiritual philosophy
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