faitheist

noun

Etymology

Blend of faith + atheist.

  1. derived from ἄθεος
  2. derived from atheos
  3. borrowed from athéiste
  4. compounded as faitheist — “faith + atheist

Definitions

  1. An atheist who thinks faith should not be criticized.

    • Those are all appeals made either to the assumptions that Dennett shares with the belief-believers (or “faitheists”) or to their own priorities in ways that challenge their essential reasons for believing in belief.
    • I see the "faitheists" as parallels to the quietly closeted gays who cringed at the tactics of Act Up or the sit-in counter veterans who shook their heads at Malcolm X.
  2. Of or pertaining to faitheism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for faitheist. 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