Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Religious Sentiments

Piety

Nouns
  • piety, religion, theism, faith
  • religiousness, holiness etc. adj.
  • saintship
  • religionism
  • sanctimony etc. (assumed piety) Impiety
  • reverence etc. (respect) Respect
  • humility, veneration, devotion
  • prostration etc. (worship) Worship
  • grace, unction, edification
  • sanctity, sanctitude
  • consecration. spiritual existence, odor of sanctity, beauty of holiness. theopathy, beatification, adoption, regeneration, conversion, justification, sanctification, salvation, inspiration, bread of life
  • Body and Blood of Christ. believer, convert, theist, Christian, devotee, pietist
  • the good, the righteous, the just, the believing, the elect
  • Saint, Madonna, Our Lady. the children of God, the children of the Kingdom, the children of the light.
Verbs
  • be pious etc. adj.
  • have faith etc. n.
  • believe, receive Christ
  • revere etc. Respect
  • be converted etc.
  • convert, edify, sanctify, keep holy, beatify, regenerate, inspire, consecrate, enshrine.
Adjectives
  • pious, religious, devout, devoted, reverent, godly, heavenly-minded, humble, pure, holy, spiritual, pietistic
  • saintly, saint-like
  • seraphic, sacred, solemn. believing, faithful, Christian, Catholic. elected, adopted, justified, sanctified, regenerated, inspired, consecrated, converted, unearthly, not of the earth.
Phrases
  • pure-eyed Faith . . . thou hovering angel girt with pure-eyed Faith . . . thou hovering angel girt with golden wings" [Milton].

Impiety

Nouns
  • impiety
  • sin etc. Vice
  • irreverence
  • profaneness etc. adj.
  • profanity, profanation
  • blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege
  • scoffing etc. v.. [feigned piety] hypocrisy etc. (falsehood) Falsehood
  • pietism, cant, pious fraud
  • lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence
  • misdevotion, formalism, austerity
  • sanctimony, sanctimoniousness etc. adj.
  • pharisaism, precisianism
  • sabbatism, sabbatarianism
  • sacerdotalism
  • bigotry etc. (obstinacy) Obstinacy, (prejudice) Misjudgment
  • blue laws. hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation. sinner etc. Bad Man
  • scoffer, blasphemer
  • sacrilegist
  • sabbath breaker
  • worldling
  • hypocrite etc. (dissembler) Deceiver
  • Tartufe, Mawworm. bigot
  • saint [Iron.]
  • Pharisee
  • sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee
  • ranter, fanatic, juramentado. the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate
  • sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one
  • children of darkness.
Verbs
  • be impious etc. adj., profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff
  • swear etc. (malediction) Malediction
  • commit sacrilege. snuffle
  • turn up the whites of the eyes
  • idolize.
Adjectives
  • impious
  • irreligious etc. Irreligion
  • desecrating etc. v.
  • profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous. un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate
  • hardened, perverted, reprobate. hypocritical etc. (false) Falsehood
  • canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much. bigoted, fanatical
  • priest-ridden.
Adverbs
  • under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion.

Irreligion

Nouns
  • irreligion, indevotion
  • godlessness, ungodliness etc. adj.
  • laxity, quietism. skepticism, doubt
  • unbelief, disbelief
  • incredulity, incredulousness etc. adj.
  • want of faith, want of belief
  • pyrrhonism
  • bout etc. Unbelief. Doubt
  • agnosticism. atheism
  • deism
  • hylotheism
  • materialism
  • positivism
  • nihilism. infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism
  • neology. [person who is not religious] atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist
  • giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene
  • freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist
  • materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist.
Verbs
  • be irreligious etc. adj.
  • disbelieve, lack faith
  • doubt, question etc. Unbelief. Doubt. dechristianize.
Adjectives
  • irreligious
  • indevout
  • undevout
  • devoutless, godless, graceless
  • ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed
  • atheistic, without God. skeptical, freethinking
  • unbelieving, unconverted
  • incredulous, faithless, lacking faith
  • deistical
  • unchristian, antichristian. worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal
  • worldly minded etc..
Adverbs
  • irreligiously etc. adj..