Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for secularity. Search instead for Feel+Pity.

secularity

American  
[sek-yuh-lar-i-tee] / ˌsɛk jəˈlær ɪ ti /

noun

secularities plural
  1. secular views or beliefs; secularism.

  2. the state of being devoted to the affairs of the world; worldliness.

  3. a secular matter.


secularity British  
/ ˌsɛkjʊˈlærɪtɪ /

noun

  1. the state or condition of being secular

  2. interest in or adherence to secular things

  3. a secular concern or matter

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

Etymology

Origin of secularity

1350–1400; Middle English. See secular, -ity

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

This latest controversy was triggered by government figures which show that in the last academic year there was a big increase in what are described as "breaches of secularity" in schools.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2023

“And that would be a tragedy, given the cultural importance and intense secularity of New York.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 31, 2023

“When religion is infusing these secular spaces, it troubles the concept of religion, but also troubles the strict secularity we’ve come to expect.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2021

One could say that, in moving from theory to praxis, Hägglund’s secularity gets a touch religious, burning with correction.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

As that popular idea clings to its abstract universality, from which all definite quality is excluded, all such definiteness is only the non-divine, the secularity of things, thus left standing in fixed undisturbed substantiality.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember "secularity" for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com