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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Irreligiousness; irreligion.

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Examples

  • There is no way of knowing whether people with no religion report comments on their irreligiosity as negativity toward their “religious” beliefs.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • I would be careful about overstating the irreligiosity of the "political left," although certainly traditional Marxists were/are atheists.

    Politics, Economics, and Religion, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The author has a lingering hope, though only partially realized, that the pilgrimage will exorcise his grief in ways his own irreligiosity has failed to do.

    On Holy Ground Alice Albinia 2011

  • The book has been taken to task for irreligiosity: God is not mentioned, and the only Jewish religious practice referred to is fasting (Esth 4: 16).

    Esther: Bible. 2009

  • What is it about his life they find to be evidence of irreligiosity?

    Obama: Not praying like the Pharisees | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • That he was sent to schools of two different faiths tends to confirm his statements, quoted in the article, about the essential irreligiosity of his mother and stepfather.

    An Obama Scandal? Nope 2007

  • So is the attempt to project irreligiosity as the counter to communalism.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • So is the attempt to project irreligiosity as the counter to communalism.

    Who's more relevant than Gandhi Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • I missed all the dog love growing up, hence my irreligiosity in the matter.

    Hey, doggies! Ann Althouse 2008

  • A more systematic study by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi 'found that among Nobel Prize laureates in the sciences, as well as those in literature, there was a remarkable degree of irreligiosity, as compared to the populations they came from'. 52

    The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

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