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Abrahamic vs Polytheistic - What's the difference?

abrahamic | polytheistic |

As adjectives the difference between abrahamic and polytheistic

is that abrahamic is pertaining to abraham, the patriarch while polytheistic is of or relating to polytheism.

abrahamic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch.
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  • (of a religion) Descended from the religious tradition of Abraham.
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    • Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Baha'i Faith are all Abrahamic religions.

    Usage notes

    Not all religions that revere Abraham are considered Abrahamic. The term always covers Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and often includes . Other faiths descended from these religions, such as Rastafari and Mandaeism, are sometimes not described as Abrahamic even if they consider Abraham holy.

    Synonyms

    * (pertaining to Abraham) Abrahamical, Ibrahimic * (of the family of religions revering Abraham) Abrahamist, Ibrahimic, Semitic

    Related terms

    * Abrahamism

    References

    polytheistic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of or relating to polytheism
  • * 1909 , The Quarterly Review , p. 124:
    • The mystic is one to whom the unitive, pantheistic, or at least the panentheistic, aspects of the divinity are as congenial as the deistic, polytheistic , and anthropomorphic aspects are to the institutional mind.
  • * Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
    • The horse stood still till he had finished the hymn, which Jude repeated under the sway of a polytheistic fancy that he would never have thought of humouring in broad daylight.