pantheism

American  

[pan-thee-iz-uhm] / ˈpæn θiˌɪz əm /

noun

1. the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.

2. any religious belief or philosophical doctrine that identifies God with the universe.

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pantheism British  

/ ˈpænθɪˌɪzəm /

noun

1. the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which man, nature, and the material universe are manifestations

2. any doctrine that regards God as identical with the material universe or the forces of nature

3. readiness to worship all or a large number of gods

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pantheism Cultural  

1. The belief that God, or a group of gods, is identical with the whole natural world; pantheism comes from Greek roots meaning “belief that everything is a god.”

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Other Word Forms

• pantheist noun
• pantheistic adjective
• pantheistical adjective
• pantheistically adverb

Etymology

Origin of pantheism

First recorded in 1700–10; from French panthéisme, equivalent to pan- ( def. ) + theism ( def. )

Example Sentences

Lovecraft’s favorite supernatural short story, “The Willows,” also produced several head-spinning visionary novels around his belief in cosmic pantheism and the supra-human, most notably “The Centaur” and “Julius LeVallon.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2021

Why not deism instead of theism, or pantheism instead of either?

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2021

Williams was fighting one of Winters’s battles—the case against Emerson, who, he wrote in “Maule’s Curse,” had turned pantheism into an American religion.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

The systemic change that means the most to Brand is an embrace of meditation and pantheism.

From The Guardian • Oct. 27, 2014

It is only his own stupidity, and the falsifications due to such misconception, which generate the imagination and the allegation of such pantheism.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich