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Theistic means believes in a god or gods. Non means doesn't or none. So if you put them together you get the meaning which is "Doesn't believe in any god."

Another answerNontheism is an umbrella term used to include the range of non-beliefs categorised as strong and weak Atheism, and agnosticism. It simply means "without god(s)".
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