misotheism

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μισόθεος (misótheos, “hating the gods”), from μίσος (mísos, “hatred”) +‎ θεός (theós, “god”). The Greek compound is found in Aeschylus (Agamemnon 1090; compare dystheism). The English word appears as a nonce-coinage, used by T. De Quincey in 1846.

Noun

misotheism (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) hatred of God or gods

See also

• maltheism

References

• "misotheism" in the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, MICRA, 1996, 1998.
• “misotheism”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• N.E.D. (1907)