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NONRELIGIOUS PERSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who does not manifest devotion to a deity
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("nonreligious person" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nonreligious person"):
blasphemer (a person who speaks disrespectfully of sacred things)
deist (a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it)
freethinker (a person who rejects religion)
nonbeliever (someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity))
gentile; heathen; infidel; pagan (a person who does not acknowledge your god)
nihilist (someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief)
positivist; rationalist (someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes)
Antonym:
religious person (a person who manifests devotion to a deity)
