HEATHEN

adj. pagan, idolatrous, godless; uncivilized, lacking culture

n. idolater, pagan (one who is not a Christian, Jew or Muslim)

"Pagan" and "heathen" redirect here. For other usages, see Pagan (disambiguation) and Heathen (disambiguation)Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "an old country dweller, rustic") is a term which, from a Western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or cultic  practices or beliefs of any folk religion, and of historical and contemporary polytheistic religions in particular.The term can be defined broadly, to encompass the faith traditions outside the Abrahamic monotheistic group of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The group so defined includes the Indian religions (such as Hinduism, Jainism), Native American religions and mythologies and Shinto as well as non-Abrahamic ethnic religions in general. More narrow definitions will not include any of the world religions and restrict the term to local or rural currents not organized as civil religions. Characteristic of Pagan traditions is the absence of proselytism, and the presence of a living mythology which explains religious practice.
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Noun
1. a person who does not acknowledge your God
(synonym) pagan, gentile, infidel
(hypernym) nonreligious person
(hyponym) paynim
Adjective
1. not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam
(synonym) heathenish, pagan, ethnic
(similar) irreligious

(pl. )
of Heathen
  

(n.)
An irreligious person.
  

(n.)
An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.
  

(a.)
Irreligious; scoffing.
  

(a.)
Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.
  

(a.)
Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.
  

Pagan [from Latin paganus an inhabitant of the country, a villager; cf peasant] Heathen, the Germanic parallel in origin and meaning, was also used to distinguish an urban dweller or cultured man from a country dweller or rustic; and so both words became terms of inferiority and ultimately of reproach. Pagans and heathen, in recent European usage, are those who are not Christian, Jews, or Moslems.