creationism
/kɹiˈeɪʃənɪzəm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The Abrahamic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism.
Uncountable
noun
Any creationary belief, especially a belief that the origin of things is due to an event or process of creation brought about by the deliberate act of any divine agency, such as a Creator God.
Uncountable
noun
The belief that a deity created the world, especially as described in a particular religious text, such as the Quran or the Book of Genesis.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "the preservation of the race of man is made to grow out of that quickening impulse, which we call the life of humanity. This notion, which was called Traducianism by the schoolmen (the system opposed to it being termed Creatianism ^([sic]))"
- "It must be reasonably clear to all who have taken pains to understand the matter that the true issue as regards design is not between Darwinism and direct Creationism, but between design and fortuity, between any intention or intellectual cause and no intention nor predicable first cause."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁eh₂yéti Latin creō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin creātiōnemlbor. Old French creacionbor. Middle English creacion English creation Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English creationism From creation + -ism.
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Religion.
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Phrases
day-age creationism
evolutionary creationism
gap creationism
intelligent-design creationism
neo-creationism
old-earth creationism
Old Earth creationism
progressive creationism