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theism

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Meaning

  1. noun Belief in the existence of at least one deity.
  2. noun Belief in the existence of a personal creator god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses present and active in the governance and organization of the world and the universe. The God may be known by or through revelation.
  3. noun A morbid condition resulting from excessive consumption of tea.
  4. noun ↑ William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “theism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
  5. noun ↑ “theism, n.2”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015-03-18.
  6. noun ↑ George M. Gould with R. J. E. Scott (1919), “theism”, in The Practitioner's Medical Dictionary, 3rd rev. and enl. edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: P. Blakiston's Son, →OCLC, page 883.

Similar words

henotheism monotheism eutheism ditheism duotheism kathenotheism polytheism transtheism dyotheism apeirotheism

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Word family

theisms theistic theistical theistically

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