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Atheism

Atheism Meaning & Definition
Atheism Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Atheism?

[n] a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods
[n] the doctrine or belief that there is no God

Synonyms | Synonyms for Atheism: godlessness

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | disbelief | religious orientation | unbelief

Atheism In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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