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postreligious

postreligious adjective: after the decline of religion.

Adjective

postreligious (not comparable)

  1. After the decline of religion.
    • For the postreligious culture of modern humanity, art is the last religion.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103
    • His world is severely postreligious, a circumstance that made reflective believers intensely interested in his work, too.2007 August 4, Peter Steinfels, “Bergman, Antonioni and the Religiously Inclined”, in New York Times

Origin of postreligious

From post- + religious.

Questions about postreligious

What does postreligious mean?
Postreligious means after the decline of religion.
What part of speech is postreligious?
Postreligious is an adjective.

Words near postreligious in the dictionary

  1. postrehabilitation
  2. postrejection
  3. Postrel
  4. postrelationship
  5. postrelease
  6. postreligious
  7. Postrels
  8. postremedial
  9. postremission
  10. postremogeniture
  11. postremote

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