Definition of "pleroma" [pleroma]

• A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being. (noun)
• The spiritual universe seen in terms of the full totality of the powers and essence of God. (noun)

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• "Most probably St. Paul's use of the terms pleroma, the æon of this world, the archon of the power of the air, in Ephesians and Colossians, was suggested by the abuse of these terms by the Gnostics."
• "In favour, however, of the former view is the ordinary meaning of the word pleroma, the meaning of the phrase fulness of God, in other passages, the analogy of Scripture as exhibited in the parallel passages above quoted, and the simplicity of the interpretation, no paraphrase being necessary to bring out the sense."
• "The word pleroma (πλήρωμα), in the New Testament, means that which fills up; fulness, fulfilling, filling full."