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

1 sense of manichaeism

Sense 1
Manichaeism, Manichaeanism -- (a religion founded by Manes in the third century; a synthesis of Zoroastrian dualism between light and dark and Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial elements of Christianity; spread widely in the Roman Empire but had largely died out by 1000)
       => religion, faith, religious belief -- (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality")