1. the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely `other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not);
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
apophatism
n 1: the religious belief that God cannot be known but is
completely `other' and must be described in negative terms
(in terms of what God is not) [ant: analogy,
cataphatism, doctrine of analogy]