spiritual being

spiritual being
noun
an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events (Freq. 1)
Syn: ↑supernatural being
Hypernyms: ↑belief
Hyponyms:
deity, ↑divinity, ↑god, ↑immortal, ↑eon, ↑aeon, ↑angel, ↑fairy, ↑faery, ↑faerie, ↑fay, ↑sprite, ↑spirit, ↑disembodied spirit, ↑trickster
Instance Hyponyms:
Member Holonyms: ↑supernatural, ↑occult

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