Hyper Dictionary

English Dictionary Computer Dictionary Thesaurus Dream Dictionary Medical Dictionary


Search Dictionary:  

Meaning of ATHEISM

Pronunciation:  'eythee`izum

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods
  2. [n]  the doctrine or belief that there is no God
 
 Websites: 
 
 Synonyms: godlessness
 
 Antonyms: theism
 
 See Also: disbelief, religious orientation, unbelief

 

 

Products Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

Atheism
Description not available.

more details ...

 
 Websites: 
 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 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.
 
 Websites: 
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 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
 

 

 

 

COPYRIGHT © 2000-2003 WEBNOX CORP. HOME | ABOUT HYPERDICTIONARY