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panentheism

/pænˈɛnθiɪzəm/noun

panentheism is a noun meaning “A doctrine that the universe subsists within God, but that God nevertheless transcends or has some existence separate from the universe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-N-E-N-T-H-E-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does panentheism mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A doctrine that the universe subsists within God, but that God nevertheless transcends or has some existence separate from the universe.

  2. 2

    rareA belief in all gods.

noun

as Panentheism
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of panentheism.

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

How do you pronounce panentheism?

  • /pænˈɛnθiɪzəm/

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

Forms of panentheism

  • pan-en-theism

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

How common is panentheism?

Panentheism appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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).

Panentheism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a doctrine that the universe is within God:

LanguageWords
Frenchpanenthéisme
GermanPanentheismus
Portuguesepanenteísmo

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 panentheism come from?

Borrowed from German Panentheismus, coined by Karl Christian Friedrich Krause in 1828 from Ancient Greek πᾶν ἐν θεῷ (pân en theōî, “all in god”) + -ismus (“-ism”).

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