Polytheism

Noun

 * 1) The belief of the existence of many gods.

Thesaurus
acosmism, allotheism, anthropolatry, anthropomorphism, anthropotheism, autotheism, cosmotheism, deism, ditheism, dualism, dyotheism, henotheism, hylotheism, monolatry, monotheism, multitheism, myriotheism, pantheism, physicomorphism, physitheism, psychotheism, tetratheism, theism, theopantism, theriotheism, tritheism, zootheism

Etymology
From French polythéisme (ca. 1580), English from the early 17th century, a learned formation from poly- (πολύς:) and -theism (θεός:).

Translations

 * Arabic: (širk)
 * Bosnian:, mnogoboštvo
 * Bulgarian: политеизъм
 * Catalan: politeisme
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 多神教 (duōshénjiào)
 * Croatian:, mnogoboštvo
 * Czech: polyteismus
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: politeisme
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 多神教 (たしんきょう, tashinkyō)


 * Macedonian: многубоштво, незнабоштво,
 * Manx: yl-jeeaghys
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:, wielobóstwo
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:, многобоштво, незнабoштво
 * Roman:, mnogoboštvo,
 * Slovak: mnohobožstvo, polyteizmus
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: politeizm, çoktanrıcılık
 * Ukrainian: політеїзм
 * Urdu: شرک

Derived terms

 * polytheist
 * polytheists
 * polytheistic


 * polytheistical
 * polytheistically
 * polydeism