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demiurge
[ dem-ee-urj ]
noun
- Philosophy.
- Platonism. the artificer of the world.
- (in the Gnostic and certain other belief systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
- (in many states of ancient Greece) a public official or magistrate.
demiurge
/ ˈdiː-; ˈdɛmɪˌɜːdʒ /
noun
- (in the philosophy of Plato) the creator of the universe
- (in Gnostic and some other philosophies) the creator of the universe, supernatural but subordinate to the Supreme Being
- (in ancient Greece) a magistrate with varying powers found in any of several states
Derived Forms
- ˌdemiˈurgeous, adjective
- ˌdemiˈurgically, adverb
Other Words From
- dem·i·ur·geous [dem-ee-, ur, -j, uh, s], dem·i·ur·gic dem·i·ur·gi·cal adjective
- dem·i·ur·gi·cal·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of demiurge1
Word History and Origins
Origin of demiurge1
Example Sentences
It portrays the country’s leader as a human being instead of a grand demiurge, responsible for its future.
How can we know that we are not being systematically deceived by some demonic demiurge?
An hour with Sugar Plum Gary addresses both kinds of existentialism in a phantasmagoric dive — with Q&A! — through his richly frightening cosmos where Santa is something like a malevolent demiurge.
Edward Steichen’s dramatically moody photographs of Rodin’s masterpiece, his strangely leaning monument to the novelist Honoré de Balzac, emphasize the sculptor’s influential vision of Balzac as a self-creating demiurge.
But it lacks neither that nor the dramatic irony of Liston’s collapse: in effect, prostration to a demiurge of history on the turn.
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