say it: kree-AY-shuh-niz-uhm
creationism is a noun meaning "the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis". It carries one recorded sense.
the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis
“creationism denies the theory of evolution of species”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for creationism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.