RELIGIOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)