quasi-religious

American  

[kwah-zahy-ri-lij-uhs, kwah-zee-, kway-zahy-] / ˌkwɑ zaɪ rɪˈlɪdʒ əs, ˌkwɑ zi-, ˌkweɪ zaɪ- /

adjective

1. seemingly religious or having some characteristics of religion but not properly or fully so.

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Example Sentences

Above all, I remember their devotion to their subjects, the quasi-religious commitment to whatever their scholarly or creative discipline happened to be.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

With so much money riding on the promise of AI advances, it’s no surprise that AGI is also becoming a corporate buzzword that sometimes attracts a quasi-religious fervor.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2024

Some were formal in their practice, some quasi-religious, and then there was this one irreverent guy who seemed not to take it so seriously.

From Washington Post • Jun. 24, 2022

The quasi-religious overtones of seditious libel appeared in a famous 1735 New York case against the newspaperman John Peter Zenger, who criticized the colonial governor.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2021

Of course, quasi-religious talk about mind control is more appealing than a discussion of heat content and conductivity.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos