Atheism

n.	1.	The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being. Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness. - R. Hall. Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded. - Shipley.
	2.	Godlessness.

Noun	1.	atheism - the doctrine or belief that there is no God Synonyms: godlessness Antonyms: theism - the doctrine or belief in the existence of a God or gods
	2.	atheism - a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods

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