Meanings
nounheliotheism (uncountable)
- uncountablelifestyleThe worship of the Sun; the belief that the Sun is a god.
Sun-worship (solarism, or heliotheism) seems to the modern scientist to be the best of all forms of theism, and the one which may be most easily reconciled with modern monism.
1905, Ernst Haeckel, translated by Joseph McCabe, The Riddle of the Universe: At the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Harper & Brothers Publishers, page 280Synonyms: solarism, sun worship, heliolatry
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe worship of the Sun; the belief that the Sun is a god.
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Finnish auringonpalvonta
- auringonpalvontaworship of the sun as a god
German Heliotheismus
- Heliotheismusworship of the sun as a god
Italian elioteismo
- elioteismoworship of the sun as a god
Portuguese heliolatria
- heliolatriaworship of the sun as a god
Spanish elioteísmo
- elioteísmoworship of the sun as a god
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “heliotheism,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heliotheism.
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