monotheism

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• Monotheism, mono-theism

Etymology

A learned 17th-century coinage, mono- +‎ theism, from (μονός (monós, “one”)) and (θεός (theós, “god, deity”) + -ισμός (-ismos)) The term parallels the earlier polytheism, atheism (the simplex theism being slightly later). The earliest known use is by Henry More, ca. 1660, in explicit juxtaposition with both atheism and polytheism.

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Noun

monotheism (plural monotheisms)

1. The belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion.

Derived terms

Terms derived from monotheism

alethomonotheism, Alethomonotheism aletho-monotheism, Aletho-monotheism postmonotheism, Postmonotheism post-monotheism, Post-monotheism premonotheism, Premonotheism

pre-monotheism, Pre-monotheism protomonotheism, Protomonotheism proto-monotheism, Proto-monotheism pseudomonotheism, Pseudomonotheism pseudo-monotheism, Pseudo-monotheism

Translations

belief in one God

• Albanian: monoteizmi (sq)
• Arabic: توحيدية (ar) (tawħidiyyä) f
• Asturian: monoteísmu (ast) m
• Bulgarian: монотеизъм (bg) (monoteizǎm) m
• Catalan: monoteisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一神教 (cmn) (yishenjiao)

• Czech: monoteismus (cs) m
• Danish: monoteisme (da)
• Dutch: monotheïsme (nl) n
• Esperanto: monoteismo (eo), unudiismo (eo)
• Estonian: monoteism (et)
• Finnish: monoteismi (fi)
• French: monothéisme (fr) m
• Galician: monoteísmo (gl) m
• German: Monotheismus (de) m
• Greek: μονοθεϊσμός (el) (monotheïsmós)
• Hebrew: מונותאיזם (he)
• Hungarian: egyistenhit (hu), monoteizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: eingyðistrú (is)
• Indonesian: monoteisme (id)
• Irish: aondiachas (ga) m

• Japanese: 一神教 (ja) (いっしんきょう, isshinkyō)
• Korean: 일신교 (ko) (ilsingyo) (一神教 (ko)) (in a specific faith), 일신론 (ko) (ilsinron) (一神論 (ko)) (general)
• Latin: monotheïsmus (la) m
• Macedonian: монотеизам (mk) (monoteizam) m
• Maltese: monoteiżmu (mt) m
• Persian: یکتاپرستی (fa) (yektāparasti), توحید (fa) (touhid)
• Polish: monoteizm (pl) m, jedynobóstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: monoteísmo (pt) m
• Romanian: monoteism (ro)
• Russian: монотеизм (ru) (monoteizm) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: монотеизам (sh) m, једнобоштво (sh) n

  Roman: monoteizam (sh) m, jednoboštvo (sh) n

• Slovak: monoteizmus (sk) m, jednobožstvo (sk) n
• Slovene: monoteizem (sl) m
• Spanish: monoteísmo (es) m
• Swedish: monoteism (sv)
• Turkish: tektanrıcılık (tr), monoteizm (tr)
• Ukrainian: монотеїзм (uk) (monotejizm) m
• Urdu: توحید (ur) (tauhīd) f

See also

• binitarianism, Binitarianism
• bitheism, Bitheism
• deism, Deism
• ditheism, Ditheism
• duotheism, Duotheism
• henotheism, Henotheism
• polytheism, Polytheism
• quadrinitarianism, Quadrinitarianism
• septarianism, Septarianism
• septenarianism, Septenarianism
• theism, Theism
• trinitarianism, Trinitarianism
• tritheism, Tritheism
• triunitarianism, Triunitarianism
• unitarianism, Unitarianism

Anagrams

• theomonism