irreligion

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ir=re=li=gion

CIDE DICTIONARY

irreligion, n. [L. irreligio: cf. F. irréligion. See In- not, and Religion.].

 The state of being irreligious; lack of religion; impiety.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

irreligion, n. disregard of or hostility to religion.

Derivative

irreligionist n.

Etymology

F irr{eacute}ligion or L irreligio (as IN-(1), RELIGION)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

irreligion

n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

THESAURUS

irreligion

apostasy, atheism, backsliding, desertion, fall from grace, godlessness, impiety, impiousness, irreverence, lapse, lapse from grace, recidivism, recreancy, sinfulness, un-Christliness, unangelicalness, unchristianliness, undutifulness, ungodliness, unholiness, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, wickedness

ROGET THESAURUS

irreligion

Irreligion

N irreligion, indevotion, godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist, irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without God, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly minded, irreligiously.