RELIGIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does religiousness mean? 

• RELIGIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun RELIGIOUSNESS has 2 senses:

1. piety by virtue of being devout

2. the quality of being extremely conscientious

  Familiarity information: RELIGIOUSNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIGIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Piety by virtue of being devout

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

devoutness; religiousness

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

piety; piousness (righteousness by virtue of being pious)

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

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

Derivation:

religious (having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity)

religious (concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being extremely conscientious

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

his care in observing the rules of good health amounted to a kind of religiousness

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

conscientiousness (the quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience)

Derivation:

religious (extremely scrupulous and conscientious)