plural of Hesychast

plural of hesychast

(Eastern Christianity) of or relating to hesychasm / (obsolete) soothing or calming

(ecclesiastical history) A member of a school of quietist monks in fourteenth-century Greece and Byzantium.

Alternative spelling of Hesychast

(Eastern Orthodoxy, historical) A particular controversy concerning dogma in the 14th-century Byzantine Empire, over whether the idea of divine light was polytheistic, postulating two eternal substances, a visible and an invisible God.