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say it: DEE-i-zuhm
deism is a noun meaning "the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation". It carries one recorded sense.
the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation
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 deism 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.