Sadduceeism

noun2

1. •
   The practices, beliefs, or characteristics of the Sadducees.
2. •
   (no longer used) Perceived skepticism regarding the supernatural or divine, especially angels, resurrection and witches; moderate atheism.

   • The doctrine, then, which is populary known as “annihilationism,”—which denies the immortality of the soul, and teaches that it perishes at death with the body, is in its main features SADDUCEEISM. — 1860