anticreator

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ creator

Noun[edit]

anticreator (plural anticreators)

  1. One who opposes a creator.
    • 1971, Twayne's World Authors Series, volume 135, page 116:
      Rejected, Faust and Mephistopheles have taken the position diametrically opposed to the Creator and have become "anticreators," destroying instead of making.
    • 2013, Bernard F. Batto, In the Beginning, page 10:
      Indeed, in many ancient systems the world was thought to be the result of a dramatic conflict of wills, specifically, a primordial clash between a benevolent creator and a malevolent anticreator in which the creator prevailed and transformed the matter of the anticreator into the various components of the universe.