RELIGIOUSNESS Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

religiousness

noun

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Recent Examples of religiousness There's a sort of a natural world religiousness or spirituality or philosophy that swells around a lot of things and different characters. — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 6 Jan. 2026 Key measures of religiousness have remained remarkably stable since 2020, according to recent Pew Research Center polling. — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025

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Noun

Galliano retreated from public life for two years and was found guilty by a Paris court of public insults based on religion, race and ethnicity.

— Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2026
The scholar of religion Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900) noticed that many Vedic hymns praise different deities using the same superlatives and ascribe to them the same mythological feats.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026

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At the height of her piousness, Adele is confronted with a substitute English teacher, Bromley Stokes, a hippie from San Francisco, who, to her dismay, changes all the rules of school.

— Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Christianity is one of the state’s primary means of control, but for the girls who grew up at the Aunt Lydia School, piousness is real.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 May 2026

Definition of piousness

Noun

In the wake of the Covid pandemic, countless pieties were uttered about disease control.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 28 Aug. 2026
For example, in adulthood, 27 states have filial piety laws that require adult children to bear financial and, in some cases, direct caregiving responsibility for aging parents.

— Rin Reczek, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2026

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