Contextualizebeta

apatheism

noun
/ˌæpəˈθi.ɪzəm/US

Etymology

Reportedly coined in 2001, as a blend of apathy + theism, by author Robert J. Nash.

  1. derived from θεός
  2. compounded as apatheism — “apathy + theism”

Definitions

  1. Apathy towards the existence of a god

    Apathy towards the existence of a god; belief that the question of the existence of a god is unimportant.

    • [A]patheism is an attitude, not a belief system, and the over-riding fact is that these people are relaxed about religion.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for apatheism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA