different between polytheist vs atheist

English

Etymology

poly- +? theist

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?l???i??st/

Noun

polytheist (plural polytheists)

1. a believer in, or advocate of, polytheism

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Anagrams

• lithotypes, phytolites

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)

1. A person who does not believe in deities.
   1. (strictly) A person who believes that no deities exist (especially, one who has no other religious belief).
   2. (broadly) A person who rejects belief that any deities exist (whether or not that person believes that deities do not exist).
   3. (loosely) A person who has no belief in any deities, such as a person who has no concept of deities.
2. (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

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See also

• agnostic
• deist
• pandeist
• ignostic
• apatheist
• God hypothesis

Adjective

atheist (comparative more atheist, superlative most atheist)

1. 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.

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Verb

atheist (third-person singular simple present atheists, present participle atheisting, simple past and past participle atheisted)

1. (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.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of philosophical isms

Further reading

• atheist at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ate shit, eat shit, hastite, staithe, teatish