different between misotheism vs maltheism

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)

English

Etymology

Macaronic nonce coinage from mal-, from Latin malus (“bad”), + theism (compare misotheism and dystheism). Attested in Usenet discussions from 1985[1]

Noun

maltheism (uncountable)

1. The belief that there is an evil God or gods.
   • 2006, Charles Phipps, The Undying Machine, p. 104:

     Eve's decision is enough to make me consider choosing agnosticism as my preferred faith, or at least maltheism.

Derived terms

• maltheist
• maltheistic

See also

• dystheism
• misotheism
• eutheism

Anagrams

• Hamletism