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PANTHEISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pantheism mean? 

PANTHEISM (noun)
  The noun PANTHEISM has 2 senses:

1. (rare) worship that admits or tolerates all godsplay

2. the doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the universe as a manifestation of Godplay

  Familiarity information: PANTHEISM used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PANTHEISM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(rare) worship that admits or tolerates all gods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pantheism" is a kind of...):

theism (the doctrine or belief in the existence of a God or gods)

Derivation:

pantheistic (of or relating to pantheism)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the universe as a manifestation of God

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pantheism" is a kind of...):

theism (the doctrine or belief in the existence of a God or gods)

Derivation:

pantheist (someone who believes that God and the universe are the same)

pantheistic (of or relating to pantheism)


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