Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or state of being religious, in any sense of that word.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being religious.

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  • noun The quality of being religious; religiosity

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  • noun piety by virtue of being devout
  • noun the quality of being extremely conscientious

Etymologies

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religious +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Even his anti-religiousness is not quite what it seems.

    Dawkins or Hitchens: Who will convert first? Steve Sailer 2005

  • Their religiousness is always to the front; ours is often only in our subconsciousness.

    The Egyptian and Arabian Problems 1921

  • How much of the so-called religiousness of many Christians consists of these

    The God of All Comfort 1905

  • Thinking that the decline of her religiousness was the cause of her lowness of spirits, she took counsel with her old confessor, the Jesuit Abbe de Premord, and even passed, with her husband's consent, some days in the retirement of the English convent.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • When people with genetic "religiousness" digress from the religions that enhance reproduction (Catholicism for example) to those that don't (Socialism, for example), the evolutionary competitive advantage vanishes.

    Genetics and the Future of Religion, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Well, the religious are not going to like this...another study suggesting that "religiousness" seems to have a genetic component that predisposes some towards it.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Christopher O'Brien 2007

  • Well, the religious are not going to like this...another study suggesting that "religiousness" seems to have a genetic component that predisposes some towards it.

    More Evidence Of A Genetic Component To Religion? Christopher O'Brien 2007

  • It is not to serve the flesh and the world, in a more reformed way, without any scandalous disgraceful sins, and with a certain kind of religiousness; but it is to change your master, and your works, and end, and to set your face the contrary way, and do all for the life that you never saw, and dedicate yourselves and all you have to God.

    A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live 1615-1691 1795

  • The plot gives a fleeting nod to Salim's religiousness which is 100\% not believable, doesn't belong and seems to be planted there just for the sake of explaining his last act.

    FlickFilosopher.com 2009

  • And therefore everything that happens in the public sphere is based on a kind of religiousness, a kind of "faith" view of human flourishing, human nature, the ultimate sense of what reality is about.

    Jordan's View 2009

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