impiety
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English
Etymology
From Old French impieté, from Latin impietas, from in- (“not”) + pietas (“piety”), from pius (“pious, devout”) + -tās (“-ty, -dom”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪɪti
Noun
impiety (usually uncountable, plural impieties)
- (uncountable) The state of being impious.
- (countable) An impious act.
- 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XIX, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. , London: E. C for Henry Eversden , →OCLC, page 184:
- [I]f the world and motion were not from Eternity, then God was Idle; were all the Aſſertions of Ariſtotle, which Theology pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not ſtrange at from one, of whom a Father ſaith, Nec Deum coluit nec curavit [he neither worshipped nor cared for God]: […]
- (uncountable) The lack of respect for a god or something sacred.
Synonyms
- (state of being impious): ungodliness
- (impious behavior): ungodliness
- (lack of respect): disrespect, disregard (more general)
Translations
the state of being impious
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an impious act
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lack of respect for a god or something sacred
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