Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality of being religious.
- noun Excessive or affected piety.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Religiousness; the sentiment of religion; specifically, in recent use, an excessive susceptibility to the religious sentiments, especially wonder, awe, and reverence, unaccompanied by any corresponding loyalty to divine law in daily life; religious sentimentality.
- noun Religious exercise or service.
- noun Members of the religious orders.
- noun Synonyms piety, Holiness, etc. See
religion .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality of being religious; religious feeling or sentiment; religiousness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
religious orpious , especially whenzealous or exaggerated.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
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Examples
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Ignoring social science research and epidemiological evidence to the contrary, Welner claimed that Khadr's religiosity is a sign of future dangerousness, In fact, research has conclusively found the opposite: religious belief and membership in a community are reliable predictors for rehabilitation.
Jennifer Turner: Government Witness Claims Gitmo Radicalized Child Soldier Jennifer Turner 2010
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Yet secular values are transforming this part of the world, too, and as they do, religiosity is declining.
And The Winner Is... 2008
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I think this stems from the fact that inside the beltway religiosity is in short display.
Huckabee's Rhetoric xtra 2008
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Yet secular values are transforming this part of the world, too, and as they do, religiosity is declining.
And The Winner Is... 2008
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Uninformed religiosity is a form of ignorance that leads to intolerance.
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I think this stems from the fact that inside the beltway religiosity is in short display.
Archive 2008-01-01 xtra 2008
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Just to illustrate this point a little bit further, data from a forthcoming study by some of my colleagues and myself shows shows that religiosity is already emerging as an important “filter” for certain publics when they make sense of nano.
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Certainly, as Arne makes reference to, there's enough proof that a public demonstration of religiosity is almost a prerequisite for being a presidential candidate.
Balkinization 2007
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Khairy adds that this deepening religiosity is not unique to the Muslim world.
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But the data say otherwise: There is no significant difference in religiosity between moderates and radicals.
Archive 2006-11-01 JDsg 2006
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