Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. the doctrine or belief that there is no God;
[syn: atheism, godlessness]
2. a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Atheism \A"the*ism\, n. [Cf. F. ath['e]isme. See Atheist.] 1. The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being. [1913 Webster] Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness. --R. Hall. [1913 Webster] Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded. --Shipley. [1913 Webster] 2. Godlessness. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "atheism": agnosticism, apostasy, backsliding, denial, desertion, disbelief, discredit, faithlessness, fall from grace, gentilism, heresy, impiety, impiousness, inability to believe, incredulity, infidelity, irreligion, irreverence, lapse, lapse from grace, minimifidianism, misbelief, nonbelief, nullifidianism, recidivism, recreancy, rejection, secularism, unbelief, unbelievingness, undutifulness

