creationism
English
noun
Definitions
- (theology) The Abrahamic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism.
- Any creationary belief, especially a belief that the origin of things is due to an event or process of creation brought about by the deliberate act of any divine agency, such as a Creator God (creator god).
- The belief that a deity created the world, especially as described in a particular religious text, such as the Quran or the Book of Genesis.
Etymology
Suffix from English creation.
Origin
English
creation
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticreationism English
- autocreation English
- cocreation English
- create English
- creation English
- creational English
- creationary English
- creationist English
- creationless English
- decreation English
- miscreation English
- neo-creationism English
- neo-creationist English
- subcreation English
- uncreation English
- kreationismi Finnish
- creacion Middle English