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RELIGIOSITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does religiosity mean?
• RELIGIOSITY (noun)
The noun RELIGIOSITY has 1 sense:
1. exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
Familiarity information: RELIGIOSITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
pietism; religionism; religiosity; religiousism
Hypernyms ("religiosity" is a kind of...):
devoutness; religiousness (piety by virtue of being devout)
Derivation:
religious (concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church)
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