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Nontheistic vs Nonatheistic - What's the difference?

nontheistic | nonatheistic |

As adjectives the difference between nontheistic and nonatheistic

is that nontheistic is not believing in any gods while nonatheistic is not atheistic.

nontheistic

English

Alternative forms

* non-theistic

Adjective

(-)
  • Not believing in any gods
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , date = 1866-02-15 , title = Critical Notices: The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism , first = Peter , last = Bayne , magazine = (The Fortnightly Review) , volume = 4 , issue = 19 , page = 119 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=nyYeAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA119&dq=nontheistic , passage = 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... }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1892 , first = Charles Force , last = Deems , title = The Outlook of Theology , magazine = Christian Thought , volume = 9 , publisher = Wilbur B. Ketcham , location = New York , page = 440 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=0LMnAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA440&dq=non-theistic , passage = 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. }}
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  • , year = 1895 , title = Theism: being the Baird lecture for 1876 , first = Robert , last = Flint , authorlink = Robert Flint , section = Lecture II , publisher = William Blackwood and Sons , edition = 9th , page = 30 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=EBHXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA30&dq=non-theistic , passage = 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. }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1960 , title = American Christianity: 1820-1960 , first = Hilary Shelton , last = Smith , ol = 11132932M , isbn = 9780684157450 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=svHQAAAAMAAJ&dq=nontheistic , passage = Thus what he called "natural religion" must not be confused with modern brands of naturalistic or nontheistic religion. }}
  • *{{quote-book
  • , year = 1991 , first = Marie Louise , last = Baird , by = H.F. de Wit , title = Contemplative Psychology , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=LyclAAAAYAAJ , isbn = 9780820702285 , page = 156 , passage = The nontheistic tradition of Buddhism generally takes the view that people (with each other's help) can liberate themselves. }}

    Synonyms

    * atheistic

    Hyponyms

    * agnostic

    Derived terms

    * nontheistically

    nonatheistic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not atheistic.