religio-

Noun

religion (countable and uncountable, plural religions)

1. (uncountable) Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
   • Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy

   Synonyms:

   theism, faith, belief

   Antonyms:

   nonreligion, nonreligiousness, nonbelief, unbelief, irreligion, irreligiousness, atheism, antitheism, antireligion, antireligiousness

2. (countable) A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
   • Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy

   Synonyms:

   faith, credo, creed

3. (uncountable) The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
   • The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
4. (informal, uncountable) Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
   • I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.

   Synonyms:

   superstition

5. (countable) Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
   • At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.
6. (obsolete, uncountable) Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
   • Oh with what religion doe I respect and observe the same!1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

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