monophysitism

Meaning

Noun

• An early Christian doctrine which held that Jesus Christ's human nature of was essentially absorbed by the divine, and thus that he essentially had a single nature.

Related

Similar words

• monophysism
• Miaphysitism

Narrower meaning words

• apollonarianism, Eutychianism
• See also

Origin

• From Ancient Greek μονοφυσιτισμός, from μόνος + φύσις, hence "(belief in) a single nature".