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antinomianism

an·ti·no·mi·an·ism/æntiˈnoʊmi.ənɪzəm/noun

antinomianism is a noun meaning “The belief or teaching that because only the spiritual "law of faith" (Romans 3:27) is essential for salvation, obedience to any practical or moral…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-N-O-M-I-A-N-I-S-M and has 6 syllables (an·ti·no·mi·an·ism), and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of antinomianism is antinomianisms.

What does antinomianism mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The belief or teaching that because only the spiritual "law of faith" (Romans 3:27) is essential for salvation, obedience to any practical or moral law has no role to play, even as a guide to conduct or as a test of the genuineness of faith.

    Near-synonyms: solifidianism, sola fide

  2. 2

    Opposition to the Torah.

noun

as Antinomianism
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of antinomianism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce antinomianism?

  • US /æntiˈnoʊmi.ənɪzəm/

Antinomianism has 6 syllables, split an·ti·no·mi·an·ism in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-antinomianism.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of antinomianism

  • antinomianisms plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is antinomianism?

Antinomianism appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Antinomianism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the belief or teaching that the spiritual law of faith renders any practical or :

LanguageWords
GermanAntinomismus
Portugueseantinomianismo, antinomismo
Spanishantinomismo, antinomianismo

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does antinomianism come from?

From antinomian + -ism, coined by Martin Luther, notably used in his Against the Antinomians (1539).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).