- irreligion
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)Lack of religious beliefNouns2. (questioning philosophies) skepticism (see doubt); unbelief, disbelief; lack or want of faith; agnosticism, atheism; materialism, positivism; nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, rationalism, heathenism, paganism; anti-Christianity.3. atheist, skeptic, doubting Thomas; apostate, renegade; unbeliever, infidel; heathen, pagan, alien, gentile; freethinker, rationalist, materialist, positivist; nihilist; agnostic; heretic.Verbs — disbelieve, lack faith; doubt, question; scoff; curse God [and die].Adjectives — irreligious, undevout; godless, godforsaken, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unrighteous, unhallowed; atheistic, agnostic; skeptical, freethinking; unbelieving, unconverted; doubting, faithless; unchristian, non-Christian, anti-Christian; gentile; heathen, pagan; materialistic, worldly, mundane, earthly, earthbound, carnal; secular.Quotations — There are no atheists in the foxholes (William Cummings), An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support (Fulton Sheen).II(Roget's IV) n.
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