autotheist means one who subscribes to autotheism; a self-worshipper. It carries an Arena rating of 1296, earned across 11 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, autotheist ranks #1,112 of 13,223 for Scariest Words, #1,221 of 13,223 for Most Incisive Words, #1,667 of 13,223 for Funniest Words, #2,893 of 13,223 for Most Sublime Words.
Why “autotheist” is a great word
One who worships the self as divine, deifying their own consciousness or will. Formed within English by derivation from autotheism (from the Greek auto- ("self") + theism (from the Greek theos, "god")) + the suffix -ist (denoting an adherent). Unlike a narcissist, whose obsession is with a reflected image, or a theist, whose devotion is to an external deity, the autotheist performs the ultimate theological inversion, collapsing the altar and the idol into a single point. It is the silence of a chapel with only one parishioner, the circular logic of a prayer that begins and ends with the same "I," and the dizzying architecture of a cosmos where creator and creation are one—a theology of perfect, unanswerable loneliness.
Etymology
From auto- + theist.
noun
- One who subscribes to autotheism; a self-worshipper.
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