Meaning of ATHEISM
Pronunciation: | | 'eythee`izum
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- [n] a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods
- [n] the doctrine or belief that there is no God
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| Synonyms: | | godlessness |
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| Antonyms: | | theism | |
| See Also: | | disbelief, religious orientation, unbelief | |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \A"the*ism\, n. [Cf. F. ath['e]isme. See {Atheist}.]
1. The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or
supreme intelligent Being.
Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing
above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken
tenderness. --R. Hall.
Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded.
--Shipley.
2. Godlessness.
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| Related Terms: | | agnosticism, apostasy, backsliding, denial, desertion, disbelief, discredit, faithlessness, fall from grace, gentilism, heresy, impiety, impiousness, inability to believe, incredulity, infidelity, irreligion, irreverence, lapse, lapse from grace, minimifidianism, misbelief, nonbelief, nullifidianism, recidivism, recreancy, rejection, secularism, unbelief, unbelievingness, undutifulness |
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