Deist

//ˈdeɪ.ɪst//

Synonyms for "deist" (29 found)

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Translations

25 translations across 15 languages.

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Catalan

2 entries
  • deista adj (of or relating to deism)
  • deista noun (person who believes in deism)

Dutch

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  • deïstisch adj (of or relating to deism)
  • deïst noun (person who believes in deism)

Finnish

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  • deistinen adj (of or relating to deism)
  • deisti noun (person who believes in deism)

French

2 entries
  • déiste adj (of or relating to deism)
  • déiste noun (person who believes in deism)

German

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  • deistisch adj (of or relating to deism)
  • Deist noun (person who believes in deism)

Hindi

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  • देववादी adj (of or relating to deism)

Italian

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  • deista adj (of or relating to deism)
  • deistico adj (of or relating to deism)

Korean

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  • 이신론자 noun (person who believes in deism)

Polish

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  • deistyczny adj (of or relating to deism)
  • deista noun (person who believes in deism)
  • deistka noun (person who believes in deism)

Portuguese

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  • deísta noun (person who believes in deism)

Russian

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  • деи́ст noun (person who believes in deism)

Spanish

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  • deísta adj (of or relating to deism)
  • deísta noun (person who believes in deism)

Swedish

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  • deist noun (person who believes in deism)

Turkish

2 entries
  • deist adj (of or relating to deism)
  • deist noun (person who believes in deism)

Vietnamese

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  • nhà thần luận noun (person who believes in deism)

Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

He was a deist, of course, but his time was before the discovery of natural selection so he can be readily forgiven for that.

Source: tatoeba (1555371)

She called herself a deist.

Source: tatoeba (3149007)

It was reason that led most of the Enlightenment thinkers to repudiate a belief in an anthropomorphic God who took an interest in human affairs.⁶ The application of reason revealed that reports of miracles were dubious, that the authors of holy books were all too human, that natural events unfolded with no regard to human welfare, and that different cultures believed in mutually incompatible deities, none of them less likely than the others to be products of the imagination. (As Montesquieu wrote, “If triangles had a god they would give him three sides.”) For all that, not all of the Enlightenment thinkers were atheists. Some were deists (as opposed to theists): they thought that God set the universe in motion and then stepped back, allowing it to unfold according to the laws of nature. Others were pantheists, who used “God” as a synonym for the laws of nature. But few appealed to the law-giving, miracle-conjuring, son-begetting God of scripture. […] Organisms are replete with improbable configurations of flesh like eyes, ears, hearts, and stomachs which cry out for an explanation. Before Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace provided one in 1859, it was reasonable to think they were the handiwork of a divine designer—one of the reasons, I suspect, that so many Enlightenment thinkers were deists rather than outright atheists. Darwin and Wallace made the designer unnecessary. […] before the concepts of information and computation were elucidated, it was reasonable for someone to be a mind-body dualist and attribute mental life to an immaterial soul (just as before the concept of evolution was elucidated, it was reasonable to be a creationist and attribute design in nature to a cosmic designer). That’s another reason, I suspect, that so many Enlightenment thinkers were deists.

Source: wiktionary

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