Atheism
['eɪθɪɪz(ə)m] or ['eθɪɪzəm]
Definition
(noun.) a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.
(noun.) the doctrine or belief that there is no God.
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Definition
(n.) The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.
(n.) Godlessness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Denial of God, disbelief in the existence of God.
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Definition
n. disbelief in the existence of God.—v.i. and v.t. A′theise to talk or write as an atheist.—n. A′theist one who disbelieves in the existence of God.—adjs. Atheist′ic -al.—adv. Atheist′ically.—adj. A′theous (Milton) atheistic.
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Examples
- This fixation has brought down upon the socialists a torrent of abuse in which atheism and materialism are prevailing epithets. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I add in the second place, that if it brings any advantage to that cause, it must bring an equal to the cause of atheism. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Atheism, he said, is aristocratic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His self-conceit and his instinctive and fundamental atheism made him at least magnificently direct. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Failing this, absurdity and atheism gape behind him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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