manichaeanism

Noun manichaeanism has 1 sense

• manichaeanism(n = noun.cognition) manichaeism - a religion founded by Manes in the third century; a synthesis of Zoroastrian dualism between light and dark and Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial elements of Christianity; spread widely in the Roman Empire but had largely died out by 1000;
is a kind of faith, religion, religious belief