impiety

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noun

The state of being impious.

Similar
ungodlinessdisrespectdisregardimpiousness
Opposite
piety
OriginOld French impieté ← Latin impietas →
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Meanings

nounimpiety (usually uncountable, plural impieties)

plural impieties

  1. uncountableusuallyThe state of being impious.

    Synonyms: ungodliness

  2. countableusuallyAn impious act.

    [I]f the world and motion were not from Eternity, then God was Idle; were all the Aſſertions of Ariſtotle, which Theology pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not ſtrange at from one, of whom a Father ſaith, Nec Deum coluit nec curavit [he neither worshipped nor cared for God]: […]

    1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XIX, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 184
  3. uncountableusuallyThe lack of respect for a god or something sacred.

    Synonyms: disrespect, disregard

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe state of being impious.

Similar
ungodliness

nounThe lack of respect for a god or something sacred.

Similar
disrespectdisregard

More synonyms by meaning

noununrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god

Similar
impiousness
Opposite
piety
Broader
unrighteousness
Also see
impiousnessindevotionungodliness

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinimpietas
  2. Old Frenchimpieté
  3. Englishimpiety

From Old French impieté, from Latin impietas, from in- (“not”) + pietas (“piety”), from pius (“pious, devout”) + -tās (“-ty, -dom”). By surface analysis, impious + -ety.

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Translations

Ancient Greek ἀσέβημα
  • ἀσέβημα (asébēma)an impious act
Bulgarian неблагочестивост, безбожие
  • неблагочестивост (neblagočestivost)the state of being impious
  • безбожие (bezbožie)lack of respect for a god or something sacred
French impiété
  • impiététhe state of being impious
German Pietätlosigkeit, Pietätlosigkeit
  • Pietätlosigkeitthe state of being impious
  • Pietätlosigkeitan impious act
Greek ανοσιότητα, ανοσιότητα
  • ανοσιότητα (anosiótita)the state of being impious
  • ανοσιότητα (anosiótita)an impious act
Irish aindiagacht, éagráifeacht
  • aindiagachtthe state of being impious
  • éagráifeachtthe state of being impious
  • aindiagachtlack of respect for a god or something sacred
  • éagráifeachtlack of respect for a god or something sacred
Lithuanian bedieviškumas
  • bedieviškumasthe state of being impious
Russian нечестивость, непочтительность
  • нечестивость (nečestivostʹ)lack of respect for a god or something sacred
  • непочтительность (nepočtitelʹnostʹ)lack of respect for a god or something sacred
Spanish impiedad, impiedad
  • impiedadthe state of being impious
  • impiedadan impious act
  • impiedadlack of respect for a god or something sacred
Swedish ogudaktighet, hänsynslöshet
  • ogudaktighetthe state of being impious
  • hänsynslöshetlack of respect for a god or something sacred
  • obarmhärtighetlack of respect for a god or something sacred

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with impiety

varietypietyproprietysobrietynotorietysatietyebrietyhangxiety
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