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Heathenish vs Polytheistic - What's the difference?

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Heathenish is a related term of polytheistic.


As adjectives the difference between heathenish and polytheistic

is that heathenish is sort-of or somewhat like a heathen while polytheistic is of or relating to polytheism.

heathenish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Sort-of or somewhat like a heathen.
  • 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.