Definition of "godhood" [god•hood]

• The quality or state of being a god; divinity. (noun)

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• "In Clarke's Childhood's End, for example, the promised escape into godhood is only adumbrated, as the Union with Overmind served by the Overlords might be interpreted to be psychic rather than supernatural, and evolution rather than Gnosis is the mechanism."
• "The notion of forthcoming godhood is a religious and spiritual notion."
• "Some groups, views, such as the Mormons, JWs and unitarians (small u.), hold different views about what the "godhood" of Jesus is exactly, and therefore what "fully God" would mean."