Definitions for deism

deism de·ism

Spelling: [dee-iz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈdi ɪz əm/

Deism is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in deism (deims).

Definitions for deism

noun

  1. belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation (distinguished from theism).
  2. belief in a God who created the world but has since remained indifferent to it.

Origin of deism

1675-85; French déisme Latin de(us) god + French -isme -ism

Examples for deism

With such a persuasion, deism would be a more consistent creed.

Indeed, just last week, a cluster of polls showed that deism is on the upswing in America.

The xvii and xviii centuries saw the rise and progress of deism.

This is what deism forgets, with its habits of intemperate affirmation.

Their system was deism; that is, the belief in one only God.

How different is this to the pure and simple profession of deism!

For many years this gentleman had been distinguished for deism.

He made loud professions of deism, and of devotion to Paine.

One could never draw from them what had never existed in them,—deism or instruction.

deism is the belief in a supreme being who is a creator who does not intervene in the universe.

Word Value for deism
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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