different between misotheism vs dystheism

misotheism

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (misótheos, hating the gods), from ????? (mísos, hatred) +? ???? (theós, god). The Greek compound is found in Aeschylus (Agamemnon 1090; compare dystheism). The English word appears as a nonce-coinage, used by T. De Quincey in 1846.

Noun

misotheism (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) hatred of God or gods

See also

  • maltheism

References

  • "misotheism" in the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, MICRA, 1996, 1998.
  • “misotheism”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
  • N.E.D. (1907)

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dystheism

English

Etymology

dys- +? theism

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s??i?.?zm/

Noun

dystheism (uncountable)

  1. The belief that there is a god, but that this god is not good, and possibly, although not necessarily, evil.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:dystheism.

Synonyms

  • maltheism

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