creationism

English

Etymology

creation +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɹiˈeɪʃənɪzəm/

Noun

creationism (usually uncountable, plural creationisms)

(theology) The Abrahamic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism.
- 1848, Robert Wilberforce, The Doctrine of the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, in its relation to Mankind and to the Church:
  the preservation of the race of man is made to grow out of that quickening impulse, which we call the life of humanity. This notion, which was called Traducianism by the schoolmen (the system opposed to it being termed Creatianism ^[sic])
Any creationary belief, especially a belief that the origin of things is due to an event or process of creation brought about by the deliberate act of any divine agency, such as a Creator God (creator god).
The belief that a deity created the world, especially as described in a particular religious text, such as the Quran or the Book of Genesis.
- 2008, Thomas Dixon, Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, link
- 1880, Asa Gray, Natural science and religion, 2 lectures, page 89:
  It must be reasonably clear to all who have taken pains to understand the matter that the true issue as regards design is not between Darwinism and direct Creationism, but between design and fortuity, between any intention or intellectual cause and no intention nor predicable first cause.

Hyponyms

intelligent design

Derived terms

day-age creationism
evolutionary creationism (EC)
gap creationism
intelligent-design creationism (IDC)
neo-creationism
old Earth creationism
Old Earth creationism
old earth creationism
old-earth creationism (OEC)
progressive creationism
restoration creationism
ruin-restoration creationism
young earth creationism
young Earth creationism
Young Earth creationism
young-earth creationism (YEC)

Related terms

creationist
creationistic

Translations

any creationary theory or belief system

Afrikaans: kreasionisme, skeppingsleer
Armenian: կրեացիոնիզմ (hy) (kreacʿionizm)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܪܝܼܬܵܢܵܝܘܼܬܵܐ‎ f (brītānāyutā)
Azerbaijani: kreatsionizm
Basque: kreazionismo
Belarusian: крэацыяні́зм m (kreacyjanízm)
Bulgarian: креациони́зъм m (kreacionízǎm)
Catalan: creacionisme m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 神創論／神创论 (shénchuànglùn)
Czech: kreacionismus m, kreacionalismus m (uncommon)
Dutch: creationisme (nl) n, scheppingsleer m
Esperanto: kreismo, kreacio
Estonian: kreatsionism
Finnish: kreationismi (fi), luomisusko
French: créationnisme (fr) m
Galician: creacionismo m
Georgian: კრეაციონიზმი (ḳreacionizmi)
German: Kreationismus (de) m
Greek: δημιουργισμός (el) m (dimiourgismós)
Hebrew: בְּרִיאָתָנוּת‎ (he) f (b'ri'atánut)
Hungarian: kreacionizmus
Indonesian: kreasionisme
Italian: creazionismo (it) m
Japanese: 創造論 (そうぞうろん, sōzōron)
Latin: demiurgismus m, creationismus m
Limburgish: creationisme (li) n
Lithuanian: kreacionizmas m
Luxembourgish: Kreationismus m
Macedonian: креациони́зам m (kreacionízam)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kreasjonisme m
Nynorsk: kreasjonisme m
Polish: kreacjonizm (pl) m
Portuguese: criacionismo (pt) m
Romanian: creaționism (ro) n
Russian: креациони́зм (ru) m (kreacionízm)
Serbo-Croatian: kreacionizam (sh) m
Spanish: creacionismo m
Swedish: kreationism c
Tagalog: kreasyonismo
Turkish: yaratılışçılık
Ukrainian: креаціоні́зм m (kreacionízm)
Waray-Waray: kreasyonismo

Anagrams

Marcionites, anisometric, miscreation, reactionism, romanticise