- 1靈性、心靈層面(也指宗教的內在層面)。現在台灣講「靈性」常常是無宗教的那一種——身心靈那個「靈」;若上下文是天主教、佛教等傳統,就偏向「靈修」。
Spirituality is the part of a person that cares about the soul, about meaning, about something bigger than daily life — and the word names that quality in someone, or that area of life in general. A dictionary will tell you it means being interested in religion or religious matters, and that is where the word started, but you should know that in modern English it has quietly moved. Today many people say 'I'm not religious, but I am interested in spirituality' — meaning they care about inner peace, about why we are here, about meditation or nature or quiet, without belonging to any church or temple. So the word now sits in two places at once: it can still mean the deep inner side of a religion (the spirituality of the early monks, Buddhist spirituality), and it can mean a personal, church-free kind of searching. Which one you get depends on who is talking. It is an uncountable noun most of the time — 'a sense of spirituality' — though you will see 'spiritualities' in academic writing about different traditions. The word feels a little formal and thoughtful; nobody uses it while joking with friends. It also has a softer, non-religious use: people talk about the spirituality of a piece of music or a painting, meaning it makes you feel something deep and hard to name.
From the word’s history
From Middle French spiritualité, from Late Latin spīrituālitās.
源自中古法文 spiritualité,來自晚期拉丁文。
組成spirit(靈、氣息)+ -ual(形容詞尾)+ -ity(名詞尾:某種性質)。整串是從中古法文 spiritualité 來的,再往前是晚期拉丁文 spīrituālitās。-ity 的工作就是把形容詞變成「那個性質」:spiritual(靈性的)→ spirituality(靈性)。
同家族的字
- spiritualthe adjective this noun is built from
- spiritthe base — Latin spīritus, 'breath'
- spiritualistsame spiritual, different ending (-ist, a person)
- inspireLatin in- + spīrō, 'breathe into' — same 'breathe' root
- respirationLatin re- + spīrō — same root
- expireLatin ex- + spīrō, 'breathe out' — same root
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
spiritualitynoun/ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.tɪ/
- 1
The quality or state of being spiritual.
- , "The Ways of Wisdom are Ways of Pleasantness" a pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality
- If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest unto spirituality.
- 2
Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.
- African Indigenous Spirituality
- 3
Appreciation for religious values.
- 4
obsoleteThat which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
- During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof.
- 5
obsoleteAn ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
- Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality.
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