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1. (noun) quietism
a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God

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1. (noun) quietism
peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction

2. (noun) quietism
the system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes

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