parousia

1. 1.

   (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment

   SynonymsSecond ComingSecond Coming of ChristSecond AdventAdvent

   Broadermanifestation

   Christian theology

Other forms of parousia

plural

parousias·

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 parousia

What does parousia mean?

parousia means "(Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment".

How many syllables are in parousia?

parousia has 4 syllables: pa-ro-u-sia. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for parousia?

Close synonyms include Second Coming, Second Coming of Christ, Second Advent, Advent. 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 parousia a common word?

parousia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.