quietism Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God

WordNet

Qui"et*ism noun
Etymology
Cf. F. quiétisme.
Definitions
  1. Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
  2. (Eccl. Hist.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes.

Webster 1913