English Explanatory Dictionary

Deism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A religious philosophy and movement prominent in 17th-18th-century England, France, and what is now the United States which rejected supernatural events such as prophecy and miracles, divine revelation, and holy books or revealed religions that assert such things exist.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of deism.
noun
  1. A philosophical belief in the existence of a god (or goddess) knowable through human reason; especially, a belief in a creator god unaccompanied by any belief in supernatural phenomena or specific religious doctrines.
  2. Belief in a god who ceased to intervene with existence after acting as the cause of the cosmos.

Pronunciation

/ˈdiːɪz(ə)m/ /ˈdeɪ-/ En-uk-deism.ogg

Word forms

Deism Deisms

Etymology

From French déisme, from Latin deus (“god, deity”) + -ism.

Related words

clockwork universe clockmaker watchmaker

Derived words

deist deistic deistical deistically deists moralistic therapeutic deism pandeism panendeism polydeism

Translations

Arabic: رُبُوبِيَّة Bulgarian: деизъм Catalan: deisme Chinese Cantonese: 自然神論 /自然神论 Chinese: 自然神論 /自然神论 Chinese: 理神論 /理神论 Chinese Mandarin: 自然神論 /自然神论 Czech: deismus Danish: deisme Dutch: deïsme Esperanto: diismo Estonian: deism Finnish: deismi French: déisme Georgian: დეიზმი German: Deismus Greek: ντεϊσμός Hebrew: דאיזם Hindi: तटस्थेश्वरवाद Hindi: देववाद Hungarian: deizmus Icelandic: frumgyðistrú Ido: deismo Indonesian: deisme Irish: dias Italian: deismo Japanese: 理神論 Khmer: ទេពនិយម Korean: 자연신론 Korean: 이신론 Central Kurdish: خواباوەڕی Polish: deizm Portuguese: deísmo Romanian: deism Russian: деи́зм Serbo-Croatian: deizam Spanish: deísmo Swedish: deism Thai: เทวัสนิยม Turkish: deizm Turkish: yaradancılık Ukrainian: деїзм Urdu: ربوبیت
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