Usually means: Denial of describable attributes to God.
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  1. apophatic: Merriam-Webster
  2. apophatic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apophatic: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. apophatic: Wordnik
  6. apophatic: Wiktionary
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  8. Apophatic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  11. apophatic: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  13. apophatic: Merriam-Webster

Definitions from Wiktionary (apophatic)

adjective:  (theology) Pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.
adjective:  (by extension) That passively defines a thing by describing what it is not characteristic of.

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