irreligion
[ir-i-lij-uh n]
noun
lack of religion.
hostility or indifference to religion; impiety.
RELATED WORDS
nihilism, infidelity, disbelief, unbelief, impiety, doubt, heresy, skepticism, irreverence, paganism, freethinking, iconoclasm
Origin of irreligion
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Yet the irreligion of the West was painted darker than it really was.
Union and DemocracyAllen Johnson
Yet let no one think that irreligion is advocated in this book.
LavengroGeorge Borrow
Something was said, too, that I could not catch, about her irreligion.
We have, that is to say, been swayed by the spirit of irreligion rather than of religion.
Third class in Indian railwaysMahatma Gandhi
To his violences of temper he added a reputation for irreligion.
A History of French LiteratureEdward Dowden
irreligion
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