religiousness

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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for religiousness
Noun
  • Soccer is like a religion in Brazil, and the series succeeds in highlighting the energy, enthusiasm and euphoria that comes with winning a championship game.
    Roberto Prieto, Variety, 4 June 2026
  • For Yantrasast, part of Bukhara’s appeal lies in its history as a Silk Road city where cultures, religions, and ideas mixed for centuries.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Here, against the intimate interiority of this elegant narrative, untamed urges clash with Confucian ideals of filial piety and Buddhist undertones of the suffering caused by worldly attachments.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • Ḥusayn represents justice and piety in opposition to the injustice and tyranny of Yazīd I.
    Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • Camila Mendes proved her devotion to the minimalist mule heel when out and about in New York City on Wednesday, showcasing a metallic pair from Staud with a breezy Guizio look.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 June 2026
  • The origins of his devotion to the field actually stem from his past life, much of which was unfortunately spent watching patients including his mother and father slowly slip away to their own respective diseases, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
    Matt Emma, USA Today, 3 June 2026

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“Religiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/religiousness. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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