atheism

atheism
    n 1: the doctrine or belief that there is no God [syn:
         {atheism}, {godlessness}] [ant: {theism}]
    2: a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods
    

Atheism \A"the*ism\, n. [Cf. F. ath['e]isme. See {Atheist}.]
   1. The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or
      supreme intelligent Being.
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            Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing
            above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken
            tenderness.                           --R. Hall.
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            Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded.
                                                  --Shipley.
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   2. Godlessness.
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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