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Exaggerated or affected piety
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religiosity
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being religious or pious, especially when zealous.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Religiosity \Re*lig`i*os"i*ty\ (-l?j`?-?s"?-t?), n. [L. religiositas: cf. F. religiosit?.] The quality of being religious; religious feeling or sentiment; religiousness. [R.] --M. Arnold.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Religiosity , in its broadest sense, is a comprehensive sociological term used to refer to the numerous aspects of religious activity, dedication, and belief (religious doctrine). Another term less often used is "religiousness ". In its narrowest sense, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal [syn: religiousism , pietism ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French religiosete and directly from Late Latin religiositas "religiousness," from religiosus (see religious ).
Usage examples of religiosity.
In 1961 certain obscure events associated with religiosity resulted in the overthrow of one culture, the establishment of a much wider series of cultures holding similar tenets, and the exclusion of yet other groups which resulted in a polarization among this most intelligent species, one which has yet to be fully explained.
Wade moved in with Beth, whose religiosity had a blank spot when it came to shacking up.
There is so little religiosity in the paintings that in many cases it is impossible to decide whether we are confronted by an illustration to the Bible or a study of models by candlelight.
It produced a vast amount of solemn pornography, facetious pornography, sadistic incitement, re-sexualized religiosity and verbal gibbering in which the rich effectiveness of obscene words was abundantly exploited.
Max is filled with dread, caught between the extremes of fundamentalist religiosity and secular greed.
Even though it was a time when overt religiosity was a career asset if you wanted to be part of the public face of NASA.
Poor mad old maid, her innocent religiosity was heavily tinged with her ungratified desire.
A Christian wife would have submitted to it and accepted it, but the Christianity of Baronne Dudevant was nothing but religiosity.
Fundamentalist religiosity has become an integral part of the radicalization of the Right in the United States and of the tendency to demonize political opponents as traitors and enemies of God and America.
According to the carefully kept and minutely analysed rec ords of the galaxy’s more nit-picking elder civilisations, the Chelgrians had persisted in their religiosity for a significant time after the advent of scientific methodology, and - in continuing to cleave to the caste system - were unusual in retaining such a manifestly discriminatory social order so long into post-contact history.
He could almost have hated this man before him-Quennel, with that touch of religiosity all compassionate egotists have: the superiority is expressed through self-effacement.
Patriotic religiosity was putting Sainte Genevieve at the head of the favored ones, so from all these fiestas, Dona Luisa, tremulous with faith, would return in expectation of a miracle similar to that which the patron saint of Paris had worked before the invading hordes of Attila.
According to the carefully kept and minutely analysed records of the galaxy's more nit-picking elder civilisations, the Chelgrians had persisted in their religiosity for a significant time after the advent of scientific methodology, and - in continuing to cleave to the caste system - were unusual in retaining such a manifestly discriminatory social order so long into post-contact history.