Hesychast

Pronunciation

• IPA: en, /ˈhÉ›sɪkæst/

Origin

From Mediaeval Latin hesychasta, from ecclesiastical Greek ἡσυχαστής, from ἡσυχάζειν ("to be quiet"), from ἥσυχος ("quiet").

Full definition of Hesychast

Noun

1. (ecclesiastical history) A member of a school of quietist monks in fourteenth-century Greece and Byzantium.