Theism

4 definitions found

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

  Theism \The"ism\, n. [From Gr. ? God; probably akin to ? to pray
     for, ? spoken by God, decreed: cf. F. th['e]isme. Cf.
     {Enthusiasm}, {Pantheon}, {Theology}.]
     The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as
     opposed to {atheism}, {pantheism}, or {polytheism}.
     [1913 Webster]



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

  Theism \The"ism\ (th[=e]"[i^]z'm), n. [NL. & E. thea tea +
     -ism.] (Med.)
     The morbid condition resulting from the excessive use of tea.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  theism
       n : the doctrine or belief in the existence of a God or gods
           [ant: {atheism}]

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

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "theism":
     acosmism, adoration, allotheism, anthropolatry, anthropomorphism,
     anthropotheism, autotheism, churchgoing, conformity, cosmotheism,
     cultism, deism, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, ditheism,
     dualism, dutifulness, dyotheism, faith, faithfulness, henotheism,
     hylotheism, love of God, monolatry, monotheism, multitheism,
     myriotheism, observance, pantheism, physicomorphism, physitheism,
     pietism, piety, piousness, polytheism, psychotheism, religion,
     religionism, religiousness, reverence, tetratheism, theopantism,
     theriotheism, tritheism, veneration, worship, worshipfulness,
     zootheism