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apophatism has no recorded synonym. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its 2 recorded opposites are cataphatism, doctrine of analogy.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely `other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not)
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for apophatism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.