impiety

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: im=pi=e=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

impiety, n. [L. impietas, fr. impius impious; cf. F. impiété. See Impious, Piety.].

•  The quality of being impious; lack of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.  [1913 Webster]
•  An impious act; an act of wickedness.  [1913 Webster]

  "Those impieties for the which they are now visited."

Syn. -- Ungodliness; irreligion; unrighteousness; sinfulness; profaneness; wickedness; godlessness.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

impiety, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a lack of piety or reverence.
2 an act etc. showing this.

Etymology

ME f. OF impiet{eacute} or L impietas (as IN-(1), PIETY)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

impiety

n. Your irreverence toward my deity.

THESAURUS

impiety

blasphemousness, blasphemy, desecration, godlessness, irreligion, profanation, profaneness, profanity, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness, sinfulness, un-Christliness, unangelicalness, unchristianliness, ungodliness, unholiness, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, wickedness

ROGET THESAURUS

impiety

Impiety

N impiety, sin, irreverence, profaneness, profanity, profanation, blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege, scoffing, hypocrisy, pietism, cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion, formalism, austerity, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, pharisaism, precisianism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, odium theologicum, sacerdotalism, bigotry blue laws, hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation, sinner, scoffer, blasphemer, sacrilegist, sabbath breaker, worldling, hypocrite, Tartufe, Mawworm, bigot, saint, Pharisee, sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee, ranter, fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one, children of darkness, impious, irreligious, desecrating, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate, hardened, perverted, reprobate, hypocritical, canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much, bigoted, fanatical, priest-ridden, under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion, giovane santo diavolo vecchio.