irreligion

Roget category 989

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.5. Religious affections
›› 6.5.3. Religious sentiments

#989. Irreligion

noun

irreligion^†, indevotion^† — godlessness, ungodliness etc. adj. — laxity, quietism.
skepticism, doubt — unbelief, disbelief — incredulity, incredulousness etc. adj.^† — want of faith, want of belief — pyrrhonism — bout etc. 485 — agnosticism.
atheism — deism — hylotheism^† — materialism — positivism — nihilism.
infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity^†, rationalism — neology.
[person who is not religious] atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist — giaour^†, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene — espri fort [Fr.], freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist — materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist^†, theophobist^†.

verb

be irreligious etc. adj. — disbelieve, lack faith — doubt, question etc. 485.
dechristianize^†.

adjective

irreligious — indevout^† — undevout^† — devoutless^†, godless, graceless — ungodly, unholy, unsanctified^†, unhallowed — atheistic, without God.
skeptical, freethinking — unbelieving, unconverted — incredulous, faithless, lacking faith — deistical — unchristian, antichristian^†.
worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal — worldly minded &c..

adverb

irreligiously etc. adj..

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