religiousness

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as in religion

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Recent Examples of religiousness There's a sort of a natural world religiousness or spirituality or philosophy that swells around a lot of things and different characters. — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 6 Jan. 2026 Key measures of religiousness have remained remarkably stable since 2020, according to recent Pew Research Center polling. — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
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  1. religion
  2. devoutness
  3. piousness
  4. piety
  5. devotion
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  • As a nation, the United States is moving toward knocking down longstanding walls separating religion and government, often ruling in favor of expanding the rights of religious groups.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Perspectives on secular politics were assessed through queries about separating religion from politics; Western-style governance; Islamic government; and sharia law.
    — Mansoor Moaddel, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of religion
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  • If this devoutness doesn’t come easy to him, that’s the point, conveyed with surprising humor and accumulating force.
    — Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Definition of devoutness
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  • At the height of her piousness, Adele is confronted with a substitute English teacher, Bromley Stokes, a hippie from San Francisco, who, to her dismay, changes all the rules of school.
    — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Christianity is one of the state’s primary means of control, but for the girls who grew up at the Aunt Lydia School, piousness is real.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 May 2026
Definition of piousness
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  • Reverence might also seem to involve a piety that is out of place in a diverse democracy.
    — Robert A. Ballingall, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2026
  • There’s very little piety in the 1947 film, and there’s serious chemistry between Wayne and Russell.
    — Michael Phillips, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of piety
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  • The new version centers on Dalin, a single mother who designs bridal gowns and whose devotion to her job has opened a gap between her and her 10-year-old daughter Mina.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Like Wilde, Basil possesses an idealistic devotion to beauty and love that proves his undoing.
    — Hannah Aizenman, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
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“Religiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/religiousness. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

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