nontheistic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not believing in any gods.
Example Sentences
- "The most influential contemporary school of non-theistic philosophers, the school of Comte, deny that either theism or atheism can be proved, and proscribe, with impartial rigour, all argument on either side..."
- "If the universe be regarded as self-existing, then men might hold to evolution, which is distinctly non-theistic, if not atheistic, not requiring a God for the reason that it is founded on the assumption that the possibility and potency and promise of all things reside in matter as matter."
- "But to determine the position and worth of a religion, whether theistic or non-theistic, it is indispensable that we have some notion of what religion is in itself."
- "Thus what he called "natural religion" must not be confused with modern brands of naturalistic or nontheistic religion."
- "The nontheistic tradition of Buddhism generally takes the view that people (with each other's help) can liberate themselves."