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atheist
English
Etymology
From French athéiste (athée + -iste), from Latin atheos, from Ancient Greek ????? (átheos, “godless, without god”), from ?- (a-, “without”) + ???? (theós, “god”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e??i?st/
- Hyphenation: a?the?ist
Noun
atheist (plural atheists)
- A person who does not believe in deities.
- (strictly) A person who believes that no deities exist (especially, one who has no other religious belief).
- (broadly) A person who rejects belief that any deities exist (whether or not that person believes that deities do not exist).
- (loosely) A person who has no belief in any deities, such as a person who has no concept of deities.
- (strictly) A person who believes that no deities exist (especially, one who has no other religious belief).
- (uncommon) A person who does not believe in a particular deity (or any deity in a particular pantheon), notwithstanding that they may believe in another deity.
- Throughout history, atheists were simply people who did not believe the prevalent God of the day. For the sun-worshippers, Christians were atheists. For Jewish people, Christians were atheists. Whoever does not believe in your God is by definition, an atheist. […] With all the countless Gods concocted by man, I claim that my Christian friends and I have something in common. We are all atheists, I just believe in one less God than they.
Quotations
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:atheist.
Synonyms
- nontheist
- (derogatory) atheitard, gaytheist
Antonyms
- theist
Hypernyms
- bright
Hyponyms
- new atheist
- hard atheist
- soft atheist
- azeusist
Related terms
Translations
See also
- agnostic
- deist
- pandeist
- ignostic
- apatheist
- God hypothesis
Adjective
atheist (comparative more atheist, superlative most atheist)
- Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic.
- c. 16th-17th century, Francis Bacon, Of Unity in Religion,
- He would have been seven times more Epicure and atheist than he was.
- c. 16th-17th century, Francis Bacon, Of Unity in Religion,
Translations
Verb
atheist (third-person singular simple present atheists, present participle atheisting, simple past and past participle atheisted)
- (transitive, very rare) To make someone an atheist.
- 1646 Samuel Bolton, The arraignment of errour,
- The multitude of opinions doth draw him away, or else Atheist him, that he will be nothing. […] The multitude of opinions […] doth un-atheist him, put him upon the search and examination what is the truth of God.
- 1646 Samuel Bolton, The arraignment of errour,
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Glossary of philosophical isms
Further reading
- atheist at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- ate shit, eat shit, hastite, staithe, teatish
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sceptic
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sk?p.t?k/
Noun
sceptic (plural sceptics)
- Britain standard spelling of skeptic.
Derived terms
- Britsceptic
Romanian
Etymology
From French sceptique.
Adjective
sceptic m or n (feminine singular sceptic?, masculine plural sceptici, feminine and neuter plural sceptice)
- skeptical
Declension
sceptic From the web:
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