spirituality

From Middle French spiritualité, from Late Latin spiritualitas.

• IPA^(key): /ˌspɪ.ɹə.tʃuˈæ.lə.tɪ/

spirituality (countable and uncountable, plural spiritualities)

1. The quality or state of being spiritual.
   • South

     a pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality

   • Sir Walter Raleigh

     If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality.

   • Bickersteth

     Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come.

2. Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.
3. Appreciation for religious values.
4. (obsolete) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
   • Blackstone

     During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof.

5. (obsolete) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
   • Fuller

     Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality.