Origin: Greek suffix -ism
Creationism has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis
"creationism denies the theory of evolution of species"
The Abrahamic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism.
The word comes from combining the root "creation" with the suffix "-ism." It originally referred to the belief or doctrine that the universe was created by a divine being.