deity

Other forms of deity

plural

deities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deity

What does deity mean?

deity means "any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force".

How many syllables are in deity?

deity has 3 syllables: de-i-ty. The stress falls on "de". In IPA it is /ˈdiəti/.

What is another word for deity?

Close synonyms include divinity, god, immortal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deity a common word?

deity is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.