THEISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does theism mean? 

• THEISM (noun)
  The noun THEISM has 1 sense:

1. the doctrine or belief in the existence of a God or gods

  Familiarity information: THEISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THEISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The doctrine or belief in the existence of a God or gods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("theism" is a kind of...):

faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "theism"):

monotheism (belief in a single God)

polytheism (belief in multiple Gods)

pantheism (the doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the universe as a manifestation of God)

panenthesism (the belief that God is in part of the universe and its phenomena and also transcends the universe and intervenes in its operations)

pandeism (the belief that God created the universe and its phenomena by becoming the universe, thereafter the sole manifestation of God)

pantheism ((rare) worship that admits or tolerates all gods)

Antonym:

atheism (a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods)

Derivation:

theist (one who believes in the existence of a god or gods)

theistic; theistical (of or relating to theism)