paganism

See also: păgânism

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Etymology

From Latin pāgānismus (“heathenism”), from pāgānus (“peasant, rural, rustic”). The term was used pejoratively by local Orthodox Christian Demonyms to belittle what remained of alternative native ideas and ideals. By surface analysis, pagan +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪɡənɪzm̩/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Hyphenation: pa‧gan‧ism

Noun

paganism (countable and uncountable, plural paganisms)

Any indigenous polytheistic religion.
Most people in that region practise their own form of paganism.
Any of a class of religions often associated with nature rituals.
Various neopagan movements have arisen, each advancing its own form of paganism. Some are monotheist.

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Translations

local religions practiced before the introduction of Christianity

Albanian: idhujtari (sq) f
Arabic: وَثَنِيَّة f (waṯaniyya)
Armenian: հեթանոսություն (hy) (hetʻanosutʻyun)
Azerbaijani: bütpərəstlik (az)
Bashkir: мәжүсилек (məjüsilek)
Belarusian: язы́чніцтва n (jazýčnictva)
Breton: paganiezh f
Bulgarian: ези́чество m (ezíčestvo)
Carpathian Rusyn: пога́нство n (pohánstvo)
Catalan: paganisme m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 異教 / 异教 (ji⁶ gaau³)

Mandarin: 異教 / 异教 (zh) (yìjiào)
Cornish: paganieth f
Czech: pohanství n
Danish: hedenskab (da) n
Dutch: heidendom (nl) n, paganisme (nl) n
Esperanto: paganismo
Finnish: pakanuus (fi)
French: paganisme (fr) m
Galician: paganismo (gl) m
Georgian: წარმართობა (c̣armartoba)
German: Heidentum (de) n, Paganismus m
Greek: ειδωλολατρία (el) f (eidololatría), παγανισμός (el) m (paganismós)
Ancient: εἰδωλολατρία f (eidōlolatría)
Hebrew: פָּגָנִיּוּת (he) f (pagániut)
Hungarian: pogányság (hu)
Icelandic: heiðni f
Irish: págántacht f
Italian: paganesimo (it) m
Japanese: ペイガニズム (ja) (peiganizumu), 異教 (ja) (いきょう, ikyō)
Korean: 이교(異敎) (igyo)
Latvian: pagānisms m
Lithuanian: pagonybė f
Polish: pogaństwo (pl) n
Portuguese: paganismo (pt) m
Romanian: păgânism (ro), păgânătate (ro)
Russian: язы́чество (ru) n (jazýčestvo)
Samogitian: paguonībė f
Spanish: paganismo (es) m
Swedish: hedendom (sv) c
Tatar: мәҗүсилек (tt) (mäcüsilek)
Turkish: paganlık, paganizm (tr)
Ukrainian: язи́чництво (uk) n (jazýčnyctvo)
Urdu: پاگانیت m (pāgāniyat)
Uzbek: paganizm
Welsh: paganiaeth f