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Monotheism vs Multitheism - What's the difference?

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Monotheism is a related term of multitheism.


As nouns the difference between monotheism and multitheism

is that monotheism is the belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion while multitheism is the existence of multiple forms of theism, as in a society.

monotheism

English

Alternative forms

* Monotheism, mono-theism

Noun

(en noun)
  • The belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion.

    • Derived terms

    * alethomonotheism, Alethomonotheism * aletho-monotheism, Aletho-monotheism * postmonotheism, Postmonotheism * post-monotheism, Post-monotheism * premonotheism, Premonotheism * pre-monotheism, Pre-monotheism * protomonotheism, Protomonotheism * proto-monotheism, Proto-monotheism * pseudomonotheism, Pseudomonotheism * pseudo-monotheism, Pseudo-monotheism

    See also

    * binitarianism, Binitarianism * bitheism, Bitheism * deism, Deism * ditheism, Ditheism * duotheism, Duotheism * henotheism, Henotheism * polytheism, Polytheism * quadrinitarianism, Quadrinitarianism * septarianism, Septarianism * septenarianism, Septenarianism * theism, Theism * trinitarianism, Trinitarianism * tritheism, Tritheism * triunitarianism, Triunitarianism * unitarianism, Unitarianism

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -ism

    multitheism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The existence of multiple forms of theism, as in a society.
  • *1885 , , p. 574:
  • *:But for rudeness of manners, idolatry, and multitheism , no people in the world ever went beyond them.
  • *1990 , Edward Malcolm Batley, Catalyst of Enlightenment, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , p. 317:
  • *:This led to multitheism and idolatry, a condition which would have grown increasingly confused, had God not decided to give mankind some better direction.
  • *2001 , , God at 2000 , p. 48:
  • *:But I am convinced that it is time for us to understand all our theisms as aspects of a global multitheism .
  • *2003 , Maynard Solomon, Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination , p. 226:
  • *:By the unprecedented intensity of the finale's rhetoric, by the multitheism of its symbolism — the Greek mythic signposts, the Christian-medieval gestures embedded in the Andante maestoso, and the orientalism of the Alla marcia's "Turkish Music".
  • (archaic) Polytheism.
  • *1933 , Buddhist Society (London, England), The Middle Way , p. 90:
  • *:This forceful imposition of monotheism and impossibly high moral standards on the slow evolutionary process of multitheism in which people were still learning to live with their gods created guilt, anxiety and fear of the new god.

    • Derived terms

    *multitheist *multitheistic *multitheistically

    Related terms

    *monotheism *omnitheism *polytheism