Irreligion
Irreligion
#989. Irreligion. -- N. irreligion[obs], indevotion[obs];
godlessness, ungodliness &c. adj.; laxity, quietism.
- skepticism, doubt; unbelief, disbelief; incredulity, incredulousness
&c. adj[obs].; want of faith, want of belief; pyrrhonism; bout &c. 485;
agnosticism.
- atheism; deism; hylotheism[obs]; materialism; positivism; nihilism.
- infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity[obs], rationalism;
neology.
- [person who is not religious] atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist,
infidel, pyrrhonist; giaour[obs], heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene; espri
fort[Fr], freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist; materialist,
positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist[obs], theophobist[obs].
- V. be irreligious &c. adj.; disbelieve, lack faith; doubt, question
&c. 485.
- dechristianize[obs].
- Adj. irreligious; indevout[obs]; undevout[obs]; devoutless[obs],
godless, graceless; ungodly, unholy, unsanctified[obs], unhallowed;
atheistic, without God.
- skeptical, freethinking; unbelieving, unconverted; incredulous,
faithless, lacking faith; deistical; unchristian, antichristian[obs].
- worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal; worldly &c. minded.
- Adv. irreligiously &c. adj.