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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Atheism \A"the*ism\, noun [Cf. F. ath['e]isme. See {Atheist}.]
1. The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.
Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness. --R. Hall.
Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded. --Shipley.
2. Godlessness.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
atheism
noun
1: the doctrine or belief that there is no God [syn: {godlessness}] [ant: {theism}]
2: a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "atheism": agnosticism, apostasy, backsliding, denial, desertion, disbelief, discredit, faithlessness, fall from grace, gentilism, heresy, impiety, impiousness, inability to believe, incredulity, infidelity, irreligion, irreverence, lapse, lapse from grace, minimifidianism, misbelief, nonbelief, nullifidianism, recidivism, recreancy, rejection, secularism, unbelief, unbelievingness, undutifulness
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