impiety
impiety noun: the state of being impious.
Noun
impiety (usually uncountable, plural impieties)
- The state of being impious.
- Synonyms:
- ungodliness
- An impious act.
- [I]f the world and motion were not from Eternity, then God was Idle; were all the Aſſertions of Ariſtotle, which Theology pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not ſtrange at from one, of whom a Father ſaith, Nec Deum coluit nec curavit [he neither worshipped nor cared for God]: […]1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XIX, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 184
- The lack of respect for a god or something sacred.
- Synonyms:
- disrespect, disregard
impiety meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
impiety in Tamil
- பக்தியின்மை, மரியாதையின்மை
impiety in Urdu
- فسق, فسق و فجور
impiety in Bengali
- impiety, sin
- অংহ oṅho, অক ok
impiety in Malayalam
- ungodliness, godlessness, unholiness
- അഭക്തി, ഭക്തിയില്ലായ്മ, ദെെവവിശ്വാസമില്ലായ്മ, ഈശ്വരനിന്ദ, വിശ്വാസമില്ലായ്മ, ഈശ്വര വിശ്വാസമില്ലായ്മ
- sin, transgression, wrongdoing
- ഭക്തിയില്ലായ്മ, ധർമ്മലോപം, പാപം, അപരാധം, അധര്മ്മം, ദുഷ്ക്രമം
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- impiety in Kannada
- ನಂಬಿಕೆಯಿಲ್ಲದಿಕೆ, ನಂಬಿಕೆಯಳಿವು, ನಾಸ್ತಿಕತೆ, ದೈವಭಕ್ತಿಯಿಲ್ಲದಿರುವಿಕೆ
Synonyms of impiety
Forms of impiety
| plural | impieties |
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Origin of impiety
From Old French impieté, from Latin impietas, from in- (“not”) + pietas (“piety”), from pius (“pious, devout”) + -tās (“-ty, -dom”). By surface analysis, impious + -ety.
Words that rhyme with impiety
Questions about impiety
- What does impiety mean?
- Impiety means the state of being impious.
- What is impiety in Tamil?
- Impiety in Tamil is பக்தியின்மை, மரியாதையின்மை. See Impiety meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is impiety?
- Impiety is a noun.
- What is the plural of impiety?
- The plural of impiety is impieties.
Words near impiety in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: impiety (page history and authors); impiety (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impiety (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অংহ (Bengali) (page history and authors); impiety (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); impiety (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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