postreligious

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adjective

After the decline of religion.

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Meanings

adjectivepostreligious (not comparable)
  1. not comparableAfter the decline of religion.

    For the postreligious culture of modern humanity, art is the last religion.

    1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103
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    His world is severely postreligious, a circumstance that made reflective believers intensely interested in his work, too.

    2007 August 4, Peter Steinfels, “Bergman, Antonioni and the Religiously Inclined”, in New York Times

Origin

From post- + religious.

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APA

postreligious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postreligious

MLA

“postreligious.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postreligious. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postreligious,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postreligious.

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