Atheism

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Atheism \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.
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              Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing


              above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken
              tenderness.                           --R. Hall.
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              Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded.
                                                    --Shipley.
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     2. Godlessness.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  atheism
       n 1: the doctrine or belief that there is no God [syn: {godlessness}]
            [ant: {theism}]
       2: a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "atheism":
     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