Associations to the word «Demiurge»

Wiktionary

DEMIURGE, noun. Something (as an institution, idea, or individual) conceived as an autonomous creative force or decisive power.
DEMIURGE, proper noun. (Platonism) The subordinate being that fashions the perceptible world in the light of eternal ideas.
DEMIURGE, proper noun. (gnosticism) A prideful, inferior being that creates the material world; frequently identified with the creator God of the Hebrew Bible.

Dictionary definition

DEMIURGE, noun. A subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats