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Idealism vs Theism - What's the difference?

idealism | theism |

As nouns the difference between idealism and theism

is that idealism is the property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life while theism is belief in the existence of at least one deity.

idealism

English

(wikipedia idealism)

Noun

  • The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
  • (philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.

    • Synonyms

    * (philosophy) philosophical idealism

    Antonyms

    * (philosophy) materialism

    Derived terms

    * epistemological idealism * metaphysical idealism

    Related terms

    * idealist * idealistic * idealistically

    See also

    * realism * pragmatism * materialism * physicalism

    References

    * *

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -ism

    theism

    English

    Noun

  • (belief system) Belief in the existence of at least one deity.
  • (belief system) Belief in the existence of a personal creator god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses present and active in the governance and organization of the world and the universe. The God may be known by or through revelation.
  • * 1999 , Jeaneane D. Fowler, Humanism: Beliefs & Practices, page 66
    • The term stands in contradistinction to theism which, in its widest sense, means belief in a personal god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses.

    Derived terms

    * apatheism * bitheism * duotheism * dystheism * henotheism * kathenotheism * maltheism * monotheism * panentheism * pantheism * polytheism * suitheism * tritheism * tetratheism

    Related terms

    (terms etymologically related to "theism") * atheism * thearchy * theist * theistic * theistical * theistically * theists * theists * theo- * theocracy * theology * theopanism * theosophy

    See also

    * agnosticism * atheism * deism * divine * henotheism * monotheism * pantheism * pandeism * polytheism

    External links

    * (wikipedia "theism")

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -ism English words not following the I before E except after C rule