neo-Pythagoreanism

noun

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variants or Neo-Pythagoreanism

: the doctrines of a school philosophy originating in Alexandria about the beginning of the first century a.d. and reviving with mystical interpretations many Pythagorean ideas

Word History

Etymology

ne- + pythagoreanism

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