monotheism
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- Belief in the One True God, defined by More as personal, immaterial and trinitarian.
- The belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion.
- The belief that God is one person (Judaism, Unitarian Christianity, Islam), not three persons (Trinitarian Christianity, Hinduism)
Pronunciation
/ˌmɑnoʊ̯ˈθiɪzm̩/
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Word forms
monotheism
monotheisms
mono-theism
Etymology
A learned 17th-century coinage, mono- + theism, from (μονός (monós, “one”)) and (θεός (theós, “god, deity”) + -ισμός (-ismós)) The term parallels the earlier polytheism, atheism (the simplex theism being slightly later).
The term was coined by Henry More, ca. 1660, in explicit juxtaposition with both atheism and polytheism. It was redefined through etymological fallacy by Daniel Webster ca. 1828.
Derived words
alethomonotheism
Aletho-monotheism
Postmonotheism
post-monotheism
Premonotheism
Pre-monotheism
proto-monotheism
Protomonotheism
pseudo-monotheism
Pseudomonotheism
Translations
Albanian: monoteizmi
Arabic: تَوْحِيد
Asturian: monoteísmu
Belarusian: монатэі́зм
Belarusian: адзінабо́жжа
Bengali: একেশ্বরবাদ
Bulgarian: монотеи́зъм
Bulgarian: единобо́жие
Catalan: monoteisme
Chinese Mandarin: 一神教
Chinese Mandarin: 一神論 /一神论
Czech: monoteismus
Czech: jednobožství
Danish: monoteisme
Dutch: monotheïsme
Esperanto: monoteismo
Esperanto: unudiismo
Estonian: monoteism
Finnish: monoteismi
French: monothéisme
Galician: monoteísmo
Georgian: მონოთეიზმი
Georgian: ერთღმერთიანობა
German: Monotheismus
Greek: μονοθεϊσμός
Paraguayan Guarani: tupã peteĩre jerovia
Hebrew: מוֹנוֹתֵאִיזְם
Hindi: एकेश्वरवाद
Hungarian: egyistenhit
Hungarian: monoteizmus
Icelandic: eingyðistrú
Indonesian: monoteisme
Irish: aondiachas
Japanese: 一神教
Kazakh: бірқұдайлық
Kazakh: біртәңірлік
Korean: 일신교
Korean: 일신론
Kyrgyz: биркудайчылык
Kyrgyz: биртеңирчилик
Latin: monotheïsmus
Lithuanian: monoteizmas
Macedonian: монотеизам
Macedonian: еднобоштво
Malay: monoteisme
Malay: tauhid
Maltese: monoteiżmu
Nepali: एकेश्वरवाद
Persian: یکتاپرستی
Persian: توحید
Polish: monoteizm
Polish: jedynobóstwo
Portuguese: monoteísmo
Punjabi: ਅਦਵੈਤਵਾਦ
Punjabi: واحدپرستی
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