Pleroma

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /pləˈɹoÊŠmÉ™/

Alternative forms

• Pleroma

Origin

From Late Latin pleroma, from Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plērōma, "a filling up, fullness").

Full definition of pleroma

Noun

1. (chiefly theology) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being.
2. (gnosticism) The spiritual universe seen in terms of the full totality of the powers and essence of God.
• 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 141:There is a way to comprehend the gnostic's giant onion of a world, the concentric circles, with the Pleroma beckoning there, the white heart of light, the source of that primal vision which for a second or two can recapture paradise.

Anagrams

• Palermo, polearm