noun
Meaning 1
Neutrality towards all religions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- state secularism
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
secularism
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
-
Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɛkjʊləɹɪzəm/
-
Canada, General-American: /ˈsɛkjələɹɪzəm/
-
Maryland Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
-
CMU ARPABET: S EH1 K Y AH0 L ER0 IH2 Z AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The political belief in the separation of church and state, i.e. the position that religious belief should not influence public and governmental decisions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English secular Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English secularism From secular + -ism.
Across languages
Translations
54 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: عَلْمَانِيَّة (ʕalmāniyya) — neutrality towards all religions
- Arabic: لَائِكِيَّة (lāʔikiyya) — neutrality towards all religions
- Arabic: دهرانية — neutrality towards all religions
- Azerbaijani: dünyəvilik — neutrality towards all religions
- Azerbaijani: sekulyarizm — neutrality towards all religions
- Bulgarian: секуларизъм (sekularizǎm) — neutrality towards all religions
- Chinese Mandarin: 世俗主義 /世俗主义 (shìsúzhǔyì) — neutrality towards all religions
- Danish: sekularisme — neutrality towards all religions
- Dutch: secularisme — neutrality towards all religions
- Esperanto: sekulareco — neutrality towards all religions
- Finnish: sekularismi — neutrality towards all religions
- French: laïcité — neutrality towards all religions
- French: sécularisme — neutrality towards all religions
- Georgian: სეკულარიზმი (seḳularizmi) — neutrality towards all religions
- German: Säkularismus — neutrality towards all religions
- German: Laizität — neutrality towards all religions
- Greek: κοσμικισμός (kosmikismós) — neutrality towards all religions
- Indonesian: sekularisme, paham sekuler — neutrality towards all religions
- Italian: laicità — neutrality towards all religions
- Italian: secolarismo — neutrality towards all religions
- Japanese: 世俗主義 (sezokushugi) — neutrality towards all religions
- Korean: 세속주의 (sesokjuui) — neutrality towards all religions
- Malay: sekularisme — neutrality towards all religions
- Malay: faham sekularis — neutrality towards all religions
- Malay: kedisinikinian — neutrality towards all religions
- Persian: سکولاریسم — neutrality towards all religions
- Polish: sekularyzm — neutrality towards all religions
- Portuguese: laicidade — neutrality towards all religions
- Portuguese: secularismo — neutrality towards all religions
- Romanian: laicitate — neutrality towards all religions
- Romanian: secularism — neutrality towards all religions
- Russian: секуляри́зм (sekuljarízm) — neutrality towards all religions
- Spanish: laicidad — neutrality towards all religions
- Spanish: secularismo — neutrality towards all religions
- Tajik: дунявият (dunyaviyat) — neutrality towards all religions
- Tajik: гетият (getiyat) — neutrality towards all religions
- Tajik: секуляризм (sekulyarizm) — neutrality towards all religions
- Thai: ฆราวาส (ká-raa-wâat) — neutrality towards all religions
- Turkish: laiklik — neutrality towards all religions
- Turkish: sekülerizm — neutrality towards all religions
- Ukrainian: секуляризм (sekuljaryzm) — neutrality towards all religions
- Urdu: علمانیت (almāniyat) — neutrality towards all religions
- Urdu: سیکیولرزم — neutrality towards all religions
- Urdu: سیکولرزم — neutrality towards all religions
- Urdu: گیتی گرائی (gētī garāī) — neutrality towards all religions
- Urdu: دنیا گرائی (duniyā garāī) — neutrality towards all religions
- Uzbek: dunyoviylik — neutrality towards all religions
- Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa thế tục — neutrality towards all religions
- Vietnamese: thế tục chủ nghĩa — neutrality towards all religions
- Chinese Cantonese: 政教分離 /政教分离 (zing3 gaau3 fan1 lei4) — the political belief in the separation of church and state
- Chinese Mandarin: 政教分離 /政教分离 (zhèngjiào fēnlí) — the political belief in the separation of church and state
- Finnish: sekularismi — the political belief in the separation of church and state
- French: laïcisme — the political belief in the separation of church and state
- Spanish: laicismo — the political belief in the separation of church and state