词族 · spirituality
词形变化
英语词源
- spirituality (n.)
- early 15c., "the clergy," also "ecclesiastical property; things pertaining to the Church," from Middle French spiritualite, from Late Latin spiritualitatem (nominative spiritualitas), from Latin spiritualis (see spiritual). Meaning "quality of being spiritual" is from c. 1500; seldom-used sense of "fact or condition of being a spirit" is from 1680s. An earlier form was spiritualty (late 14c.).
English is blessed with multiple variant forms of many words. But it has made scant use of them; for every pair historic/historical; realty/reality, or luxuriant/luxurious there is a spiritualty/spirituality or a specialty/speciality, with two distinct forms, two senses requiring differentiation, hundreds of years gone by, and but little progress made in in sorting them out.
权威例句
- 1. She displays none of the sanctimoniousness often associated with spirituality.
- 在她身上丝毫未见圣职人员常有的那种故作虔诚。
- 2. This type of music has a negitive influence on our spirituality.
- 这种音乐对我们的灵性有负面的影响.
- 3. We human are creature of spirituality living with meaning.
- 我们人类是生活在有意义的精神领域里.
- 4. This is not the first time that scientists have investigated spirituality.
- 这不是科学家首次研究灵性.
- 5. In my eyes , wisdom and spirituality are more important.
- 祝愿其和更多人也包括自己能在有生之年达到上善若水的境界.