taoism   (TTS Sound)

The noun taoism has 4 senses

• Taoism -- (a Chinese sect claiming to follow the teaching of Lao-tzu but incorporating pantheism and sorcery in addition to Taoism)


• Taoism -- (religion adhering to the teaching of Lao-tzu)


• Taoism, Hsuan Chiao -- (popular Chinese philosophical system based in teachings of Lao-tzu but characterized by a pantheism of many gods and the practices of alchemy and divination and magic)


• Taoism, Daoism -- (philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events)