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monotheism

[mon-uh-thee-iz-uhm] / ˈmɒn ə θiˌɪz əm /
NOUN
belief in one God
Synonyms
STRONGEST
belief in God theism
STRONG
deism nomotheism theomonism trinitarianism unitarianism
WEAK
monism monolatry
Antonyms
STRONGEST
ditheism henotheism omnitheism polytheism tritheism
WEAK
animism neopaganism paganism pantheism


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What is really the world’s oldest profession has devolved from pitching ethical monotheism to getting free merch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Stasevska was born in 1984, the same year that Glass’ hypnotic, ritualistic opera, about an Egyptian pharaoh who dared to push monotheism onto his polytheistic culture, debuted in Stuttgart, Germany.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

Muslims do not worship the Kaaba, a cube-shaped structure covered in a black, gold-embroidered cloth, but view it as their most sacred place and a powerful symbol of unity and monotheism.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 25, 2023

This belief was very different from monotheism, in which all spiritual power resided in one single divine being.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

But the monotheism was essentially pantheistic; there was, indeed, but one god to whom adoration was paid, but he was universally diffused throughout nature.

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce


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