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a·the·ism

(ā′thē-ĭz′əm)

Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods.

[French athéisme, from athée, atheist, from Greek atheos, godless : a-, without; see a-¹ + theos, god; see dhēs- in Indo-European roots.]

a′the·ist n.

a′the·is′tic, a′the·is′ti·cal adj.

a′the·is′ti·cal·ly adv.

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Adj.	1.	atheistic - rejecting any belief in gods unbelieving, atheistical irreligious - hostile or indifferent to religion
	2.	atheistic - related to or characterized by or given to atheism; "atheist leanings" atheist, atheistical

atheistic

adjective nonbelieving, sceptic, disbelieving, faithless, heathen, infidel, godless, irreligious, unbelieving, freethinking, paganistic, nullifidian atheistic philosophers

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Translations

إلحادي

ateistický

guîlaus; óguîlegur

ateistico

ateistisk

ateistický

Tanrısız

无神论的

atheistic

[ˌeɪθɪˈɪstɪk] ADJ → ateo, ateísta

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atheistic

adj → atheistisch

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atheism

(ˈeiθiizəm) noun

the belief that there is no God.

ˈatheist noun

a person who does not believe in God.

ˌatheˈistic adjective

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"A future life?" Prince Andrew repeated, but Pierre, giving him no time to reply, took the repetition for a denial, the more readily as he knew Prince Andrew's former atheistic convictions.

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This, indeed, was a home,--home,--a word that George had never yet known a meaning for; and a belief in God, and trust in his providence, began to encircle his heart, as, with a golden cloud of protection and confidence, dark, misanthropic, pining atheistic doubts, and fierce despair, melted away before the light of a living Gospel, breathed in living faces, preached by a thousand unconscious acts of love and good will, which, like the cup of cold water given in the name of a disciple, shall never lose their reward.

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It was the Plutocracy, through its secret agents, that raised the cry that socialism was sacrilegious and atheistic; it was the Plutocracy that whipped the churches, and especially the Catholic Church, into line, and robbed us of a portion of the labor vote.

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"My God!" cried the atheistic cobbler, "and there's the hammer he did it with."

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The Catholic Church has a worldwide history of anti-communism and in its Catechism of the Catholic Church, a compilation of Catholic beliefs, holds that it "has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with 'communism' or 'socialism.'"

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That may be how Eddie views his atheistic opinion of a god that he does not know and does not want to know so how can prayer be effective?

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Khaled Salah, editor-in-chief of Youm7 -- Egypt Today CAIRO -- 20 January 2018: In my opinion, the threat of atheism is no lesser than that of terrorism, and the atheistic wave is no longer a passing storm.

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Robinson asked him: "Is that not a problem?" Mr Purnell, 47, replied: "The vast majority of people in this country have a range of views - some people have very strong religious views, some people have strong atheistic views.