heathenism

1. 1.

   any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism

   Synonymspaganismpagan religion

   Broaderreligion

   Narrowerdruidism

Other forms of heathenism

plural

heathenisms·

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.

Questions about heathenism

What does heathenism mean?

heathenism means "any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism".

How many syllables are in heathenism?

heathenism has 4 syllables: he-a-the-nism. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for heathenism?

Close synonyms include paganism, pagan religion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heathenism a common word?

heathenism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.