pandeism

Meaning

Noun

• A belief in a god who is both pantheistic and deistic, in particular a god who designed the universe and then became it and ceased to exist separately and act consciously with respect to it.
• Worship which admits or tolerates favourable aspects of all religions; omnitheism.

Origin

• Possibly borrowed from German Pandeismus, from pan- (from Ancient Greek παν-) + Deismus (from Latin deus + German -ismus). (Similar words appear earlier in various languages, but apparently not in the same sense.) The word can be analysed as pan- + deism or as a .