different between creationism vs cretin

English

Etymology

creation +? -ism

Noun

creationism (usually uncountable, plural creationisms)

1. (theology) The Abrahamic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism.
2. Any creationary belief, especially a belief that the origin of things is due to an event or process of creation brought about by the deliberate act of any divine agency, such as a Creator God (creator god).
3. The belief that a deity created the world, especially as described in a particular religious text, such as the Quran or the Book of Genesis.
   • 2008, Thomas Dixon, Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, link

Hyponyms

• intelligent design

Derived terms

Related terms

• creationist
• creationistic

Translations

Anagrams

• Marcionites, anisometric, miscreation, reactionism, romanticise

English

Etymology

From French crétin (“cretin, idiot”), from crestin, an Alpine dialectal form of chrétien, from Vulgar Latin christi?nus in the lost sense of “anyone in Christendom”, often with a sense of “poor fellow”. Doublet of Christian.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??t?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?i?t?n/, /?k??t?n/
• Homophone: Cretan (one pronunciation)

Noun

cretin (plural cretins)

1. (pathology) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism. [from 1779]
2. (by extension, derogatory) An idiot.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:idiot

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Cretinism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Cretinism on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• centri-, cinter, citren, crinet

Romanian

Etymology

From French crétin

Noun

cretin m (plural cretini)

1. idiot

Declension