Other forms: divinities
Divinity is the quality of being a god, or the study of religion. The divinity of Christ, a doctor of divinity, study divinity.
As a university subject it is the older name for theology and survives in degree titles. In British schools divinity was the old name for religious education. In American cooking, divinity is a white sugar confection, which nobody expects.
1noundivinityThe quality of being a god, or the study of religion.
“The ancient Egyptians believed in the divinity of their pharaohs.”
divinity is a godhood, or a subject.
Latin divinitas comes from divinus, of a god, from divus, a god.
Proto-Indo-European
*dyew-
Latin
divinitas
Old French
divinité
English, today
divinity
From Old French divinité, from Latin divinitas. Composed of divine + ity. Displaced native godcundnes.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA