Aseity

Quick meaning: Aseity is a noun meaning (metaphysics, theology, usually ascribed to deity) The attribute of being entirely self-derived, in contrast to being derived from or dependent on another; the quality of having within oneself the entire reason for one's being; utter independent self-existence and self-sustenance.

Meaning

(metaphysics, theology, usually ascribed to deity) The attribute of being entirely self-derived, in contrast to being derived from or dependent on another; the quality of having within oneself the entire reason for one's being; utter independent self-existence and self-sustenance.

Example Sentences

‘Transcendence’ — he is the Lord, perfect in freedom, sovereignty, aseity, uncontained, unrestrained, self-willing sovereign God.

He is Spiritual, for were He composed of physical parts, some other power would have to combine them into the total, and his aseity would thus be contradicted.

All the theistic arguments — the ontological, the moral, the cosmological, and the teleological — are interpreted in the light of experience and given an empirical form. God thus becomes "the Absolute of experimental religion." On the one hand, we have the moral attributes which include holiness, justice, love, and mercy, and on the other hand, the metaphysical attributes as aseity, omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.

Word Forms

• aseities

Antonyms for aseity

Common opposites include contingency, createdness, dependence, derivedness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include self-existence, seity, omneity, unipersonality, deityhood, entity.

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