pantheist

[pan-thee-ist]

noun

1. a person who embraces pantheism, the doctrine that God is the ultimate transcendent, spiritual, impersonal reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations.

   The pantheist says that only God exists and objects are mere modes of God’s attributes, while Baha’ism says that objects have a separate reality created by God.

2. a person who embraces any religious belief or philosophical doctrine holding that God is identical with the universe.

   For the pantheist, nothing is more worthy of reverence, or even worship, than the awesome power and beauty of the cosmos itself.

adjective

1. pantheistic.

Other Word Forms

• pantheistic adjective
• pantheistical adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pantheist¹

First recorded in 1700–10; panthe(ism) ( def. ) + -ist ( def. )

Related Words

• agnostic 
• atheist