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RELIGIOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Piety by virtue of being devout
Synonyms:
devoutness; religiousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("religiousness" is a kind of...):
piety; piousness (righteousness by virtue of being pious)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "religiousness"):
pietism; religionism; religiosity; religiousism (exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal)
Derivation:
religious (having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity)
religious (concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being extremely conscientious
Example:
his care in observing the rules of good health amounted to a kind of religiousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("religiousness" is a kind of...):
conscientiousness (the quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience)
Derivation:
religious (extremely scrupulous and conscientious)
