heathenism
nounEtymology
From heathen + -ism, coined in the 17th century in place of the then-obsolete heathendom. First attested in Francis Bacon's Of the advancement of learning (1605), II. xiv. §9: "The heresy of the Anthropomorphites … and the opinion of Epicurus, answerable to the same in heathenism, who supposed the gods to be in human shape" (OED).
Definitions
The state of being, or behavior and thought, of heathens.
- Near-synonym: paganism
- Meanwhile the Christian Church from these speculations has kept itself severely apart - as of course representing a unique and divine revelation little concerned or interested in such heathenisms[.]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at heathenism. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at heathenism. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at heathenism
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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