teodiceia
Portuguese, noun
teodiceia is spelled T-E-O-D-I-C-E-I-A (9 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written Portuguese, the 181,777th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Teodiceia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “theodicy (attempt to answer the question of why a good God permits the manifestation of evil)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, teodicéia is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of teodiceia; may still occur…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ramo da teologia e da filosofia que busca justificar a justiça e a bondade de Deus perante a existência do…”.
What does teodiceia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetheodicy (attempt to answer the question of why a good God permits the manifestation of evil)
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of teodiceia; may still occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ramo da teologia e da filosofia que busca justificar a justiça e a bondade de Deus perante a existência do mal e do sofrimento.
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of teodiceia
- teodiceias plural
- teodicéia alternative
- theodiceia alternative obsolete
- teodicéias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to teodiceia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is teodiceia in Portuguese?
teodiceia appears about once in every 41 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).