laicity
UK/leɪˈɪsɪti/US/leɪˈɪsɪti/
laicity noun: the control or influence of the laity or the fact of being lay. Also the alternative form of laïcité.
Noun
laicity (countable and uncountable, plural laicities)
- The control or influence of the laity or the fact of being lay.
- Synonym of secularism.
- A correlation may be observed between the subjects studied in the masonic assemblies and those discussed in the Radical and Radical-Socialist party congresses: between 1901 and 1910 these subjects included state laicity, [...]1949, The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, page 73
- This shows that there can be laicity even where there is no formal separation [of Church and State].2007, The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, page 724
- Synonyms:
- secularism
Also used as
laicity is also the alternative form of laïcité.
Synonyms of laicity
Forms of laicity
| plural | laicities |
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Origin of laicity
Borrowed from French laïcité. By surface analysis, laic + -ity.
Words that rhyme with laicity
- felicity
- simplicity
- elasticity
- electricity
- atomicity
- publicity
- ethnicity
- historicity
- infelicity
- plasticity
- syntheticity
- triplicity
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Questions about laicity
- What does laicity mean?
- Laicity means the control or influence of the laity or the fact of being lay.
- What part of speech is laicity?
- Laicity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce laicity?
- Laicity is pronounced /leɪˈɪsɪti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of laicity?
- The plural of laicity is laicities.
Words near laicity in the dictionary
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