Manichaeanism
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Alternative spelling of Manichaeism. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
- 2 a religion founded by Manes in the third century; a synthesis of Zoroastrian dualism between light and dark and Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial elements of Christianity; spread widely in the Roman Empire but had largely died out by 1000 wordnet