monotheism

Meaning

Noun

Origin

  • A learned 17th-century coinage, mono- + theism, from (μονός) and (θεός + -ισμός) The term parallels the earlier polytheism, atheism (the simplex theism being slightly later).
  • The earliest known use is by Henry More, ca. 1660, in explicit juxtaposition with both atheism and polytheism.

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