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n. A god or goddess.

n. The essential nature or condition of being a god; divinity.

n. God. Used with the.

n. The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead.

n. A god or goddess; a heathen god.

n. Godhead; divinity; the attributes of a god; especially, the nature and essence of the one Supreme Being.

n. [capitalized] God; the Supreme Being, or infinite self-existing Spirit: regularly with the definite article.

n. A god; a divinity; a being to whom a divine or godlike nature is attributed; an object or a person worshiped as a god.

n. any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

"Your other question of the deity is a metaphysical one and is based on faith."

supernatural being    spiritual being   

divinity    cosmocrat    god    theism    deism    godliness   

teutonic deity    roman deity    egyptian deity    Demogorgon    boddhisatva    demigod    anglo-saxon deity    zombi    chinese deity    hindu deity   

household deity   

divinity    godhead    god   

heterogeneity    homogeneity    spontaneity   

God    divinity    goddess    saint    ruler    religion    worship    hero    entity    demon