Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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spirituality

/ˌspɪɹ.ə.t͡ʃuˈæl.ə.tɪ/ noun

Forms spiritualities

  1. noun The quality or state of being spiritual.
  2. noun Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane. “African Indigenous Spirituality”
  3. noun Appreciation for religious values.
  4. noun (obsolete) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
  5. noun (obsolete) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.

Synonyms

first estate spiritualty third sex clergy church property spiritualism spiritism otherworldliness

Antonyms

materialism

Etymology

From Middle French spiritualité, from Late Latin spīrituālitās.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness.
  2. noun That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.

Etymology [L. spiritualitas: cf. F. spiritualité.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “spirituality”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “spirituality” (best matches first).