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noun
The state of being ungodly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: immorality, indecency, unseemliness, dishonour, improbity, impropriety, undecency, ungodliness, unhonour, unprobity, unpropriety, unrighteousness, unrightfulness, unsaintliness, unuprightness, unvirtuousness, wickedness
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Ungodly behaviour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: impiety
Antonyms: none provided
noun
impiety by virtue of not being a godly person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: godlessness
Antonyms: godliness
Broader terms: impiety, impiousness
History
Etymology tree English ungodly Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English ungodliness From ungodly + -ness.
Across languages
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