secularity
Americannoun
plural
secularities-
secular views or beliefs; secularism.
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the state of being devoted to the affairs of the world; worldliness.
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a secular matter.
noun
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the state or condition of being secular
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interest in or adherence to secular things
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a secular concern or matter
Etymology
Origin of secularity
Example Sentences
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“And that would be a tragedy, given the cultural importance and intense secularity of New York.”
From Washington Times • Aug. 31, 2023
"My fight is for secularity to be the norm," he told the BBC.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2022
“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
Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature, and taught us to disuse our dame-school measures, and exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style.
From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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