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The quality of being irreligious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- 1584, William Allen, A True, Sincere and Modest Defence of English Catholics, London: The Manresa Press, 1914, Volume 2, Chapter 8, p. 126, And it is a singular note of irreligiosity in our days, that these profane heretics and godless persons do prefer human things before divine; the regiment temporal before spiritual; the body before the soul; earth before heaven; regality before priesthood; and this life before the next and all eternity.
- 1930, William Malisoff, A Calendar of Doubts and Faiths, New York: G. H. Watt, “The Significance of Science,” pp. 277-278, The irreligiosity of much that passes for religion is paralleled, of course, to quite an extent by the unscientific nature of a great deal that passes for science.
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An impious action or utterance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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From Latin irreligiōsitās.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Galician:
irrelixiosidade
— quality of being irreligious
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German:
Irreligiosität
— quality of being irreligious
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German:
irreligiöse Glaubenshaltung
— quality of being irreligious
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German:
Areligiosität
— quality of being irreligious
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German:
Religionslosigkeit
— quality of being irreligious
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German:
Ungläubigkeit
— quality of being irreligious
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Polish:
areligijność
— quality of being irreligious
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Polish:
niereligijność
— quality of being irreligious
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Polish:
bezreligijność
— quality of being irreligious
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Swedish:
irreligiositet
— quality of being irreligious
