Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun docetism

1 sense of docetism

Sense 1
Docetism -- (the heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and his sufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real)
       => theological doctrine -- (the doctrine of a religious group)
       => heresy, unorthodoxy -- (a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion)