From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Theism \The"ism\, noun [From Gr. ? God; probably akin to ? to pray for, ? spoken by God, decreed: cf. F. th['e]isme. Cf. {Enthusiasm}, {Pantheon}, {Theology}.] The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to {atheism}, {pantheism}, or {polytheism}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Theism \The"ism\ (th[=e]"[i^]z'm), noun [NL. & E. thea tea + -ism.] (Med.) The morbid condition resulting from the excessive use of tea. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
theism
noun: the doctrine or belief in the existence of a God or gods [ant: {atheism}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "theism": acosmism, adoration, allotheism, anthropolatry, anthropomorphism, anthropotheism, autotheism, churchgoing, conformity, cosmotheism, cultism, deism, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, ditheism, dualism, dutifulness, dyotheism, faith, faithfulness, henotheism, hylotheism, love of God, monolatry, monotheism, multitheism, myriotheism, observance, pantheism, physicomorphism, physitheism, pietism, piety, piousness, polytheism, psychotheism, religion, religionism, religiousness, reverence, tetratheism, theopantism, theriotheism, tritheism, veneration, worship, worshipfulness, zootheism
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