paganish
Leaning toward polytheism
Paganish means somewhat pagan or having qualities associated with paganism—nature worship, polytheism, or pre-Christian spirituality.
The suffix softens the claim: something paganish isn't fully pagan but leans that way.
The ritual had a paganish quality, with its bonfires and chanting.
The word is informal and uncommon.
Irreligious nonbeliever
- polytheismBelief in multiple deities
- animismSpirits inhabit all things
- shamanismMediation between worlds
- totemismBelief linking clans to symbols
pantheism · ancestral · prehistoric · primordial · ancient · archaic · classical · antiquity
Irreligious and uncivilized
- godlessLacking belief in deities
- irreverentDisrespectful toward authority
- profaneIrreverent toward the sacred
- unholyWicked, impious, sinful
blasphemous · heretical · unorthodox · unchristian · infidel · apostate · secular · nonbeliever
heathen
Irreligious nonbeliever
- polytheismBelief in multiple deities
- animismSpirits inhabit all things
- shamanismMediation between worlds
totemism · pantheism · ancestral · prehistoric · primordial · ancient · archaic · classical · antiquity · bygone
heathenish
Irreligious and uncivilized
- godlessLacking belief in deities
- irreverentDisrespectful toward authority
- profaneIrreverent toward the sacred
unholy · blasphemous · heretical · unorthodox · unchristian · infidel · apostate · secular · nonbeliever · unconverted
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
incantation · divination · oracle · augury · pentacle · chalice · cauldron · coven · chant · invocation
mythology
Body of traditional tales
legends · fables · myths · folktales · sagas · epics · lore · bardic · druidic · Norse
paganishChristian
Adherent of the gospel
devout · orthodox · pious · monotheistic · Abrahamic
paganishpuritanical
Excessively strict about morals
pietistic · reverent · strait-laced · observant · righteous
- Norse paganismOld Scandinavian polytheistic religion