Definitions for "Monophysitism"
a Christian heresy of the 5th and 6th centuries that challenged the orthodox definition of the two natures (human and divine) in Jesus and instead believed there was a single divine nature
Christological doctrine that appeared after the Council of Chalcedon in 451 and opposed Chalcedon's declaration of two natures in Christ. The monophysites held that Christ had only one dominant nature, and it was the divine nature.
The Christian doctrine stating that Jesus Christ has only one nature, and that it is partly divine and partly human.