What is another word for impiety?

Pronunciation: [ɪmpˈa͡ɪ͡ətɪ] (IPA)

Impiety refers to the lack of respect, reverence or devotion towards a deity or religious beliefs. There are several synonyms for this term. The first one is blasphemy, which refers to speaking irreverently about God or sacred things. Another synonym is sacrilege, which means treating something holy with disrespect or violating a religious law or custom. Profanity is also a synonym, which refers to vulgar and obscene language regarding religious beliefs. Lastly, godlessness refers to a state of being without religious beliefs or morals. These synonyms help to capture different degrees and subtleties of the lack of religious devotion and respect.

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What are the opposite words for impiety?

Impiety is a noun that describes a lack of respect or reverence for a deity or religious principles. Its antonyms are the words piety, devotion, respect, and reverence. Piety is the opposite of impiety as it represents the quality of being religious, devout, and obedient to religious beliefs. Devotion also refers to a state of being dedicated to a religious belief or spiritual practice. Respect is the feeling of deep admiration for someone or something, particularly a religious figure or principle. Reverence can be described as the feeling of profound respect, awe, and veneration towards a deity or sacred object.

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Usage examples for Impiety

Both of these are distinct gains, albeit had the opinion then prevailed that to introduce into the Prayer Book anything from the pen of a living writer is an impiety, we should have gained neither of them.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
Could he longer endure such impiety?
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
The charges of impiety were answered: "His music makes us dream."
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker

Famous quotes with Impiety

  • Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
    Plato
  • Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
    Herbert Spencer
  • Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
    Juvenal
  • For this honour, nobility, gentility, propriety, superfluity, etc. hath (without contradiction) been the father of hellish horrid pride, arrogance, haughtiness, loftiness, murder, malice, of all manner of wickedness and impiety. Yea, the cause of all the blood that ever hath been shed - from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of the last Levellers that were shot to death.
    Abiezer Coppe
  • As a man's conduct is controlled by public fact, so is her religion ruled by authority. The daughter should follow her mother's religion, the wife her husband's. Were that religion false, the docility which leads mother and daughter to submit to nature's laws would blot out the sin of error in the sight of Goddess. Unable to judge for themselves they should accept the judgment of father and husband as that of the church. While men unaided cannot deduce the rules of their faith, neither can they assign limits to that faith by the evidence of reason; they allow themselves to be driven hither and thither by all sorts of external influences, they are ever above or below the truth. Extreme in everything, they are either altogether reckless or altogether pious; you never find them able to combine virtue and piety. Their natural exaggeration is not wholly to blame; the ill-regulated control exercised over them by men is partly responsible. Loose morals bring religion into contempt; the terrors of remorse make it a tyrant; this is why women have always too much or too little religion. As a woman's religion is controlled by authority it is more important to show her plainly what to believe than to explain the reasons for belief; for faith attached to ideas half-understood is the main source of fanaticism, and faith demanded on behalf of what is absurd leads to madness or unbelief. Whether our catechisms tend to produce impiety rather than fanaticism I cannot say, but I do know that they lead to one or other. In the first place, when you teach religion to little girls never make it gloomy or tiresome, never make it a task or a duty, and therefore never give them anything to learn by heart, not even their prayers. Be content to say your own prayers regularly in their presence, but do not compel them to join you. Let their prayers be short, as Christ himself has taught us. Let them always be said with becoming reverence and respect; remember that if we ask the Almighty to give heed to our words, we should at least give heed to what we mean to say.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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