demiurgism means the belief in a demiurge, or inferior supreme being. It carries an Arena rating of 1360, earned across 9 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, demiurgism ranks #567 of 17,104 for Most Storied Words, #913 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #1,285 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #4,013 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words.
Why “demiurgism” is a great word
The belief in an inferior, subordinate creator deity, distinct from and often antagonistic to a supreme, transcendent God, who fashioned the flawed, material world. The term derives from *demiurge*, from Greek *dēmiourgos* ('public worker, craftsman'), and the suffix *-ism* denoting a doctrine, and was first attested in 1880 by the botanist Asa Gray. Unlike theism, which posits a single, omnipotent, and benevolent source, or deism, which imagines a distant, impersonal first cause, demiurgism insists upon a schism in the divine: an active, bungling artisan shaping reality from pre-existing chaos. It is the doctrine of the potter who cracked the vessel, the architect who built the prison, the weaver whose thread is fundamentally coarse—a haunting explanation for why the fabric of existence feels irredeemably marred by the scent of solder and the chill of primal mud.
Etymology
From demiurge + -ism.
noun
- The belief in a demiurge, or inferior supreme being.
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