DEVOUTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does devoutness mean? 

• DEVOUTNESS (noun)
  The noun DEVOUTNESS has 1 sense:

1. piety by virtue of being devout

  Familiarity information: DEVOUTNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEVOUTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Piety by virtue of being devout

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

devoutness; religiousness

Hypernyms ("devoutness" is a kind of...):

piety; piousness (righteousness by virtue of being pious)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "devoutness"):

pietism; religionism; religiosity; religiousism (exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal)

Derivation:

devout (deeply religious)