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UK
/ɹɪlˌɪdʒɪˈɒsɪti/
]
[ US /ɹɪˌɫɪdʒiˈɑsəti/ ]
[ US /ɹɪˌɫɪdʒiˈɑsəti/ ]
NOUN
- exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
How To Use religiosity In A Sentence
- Those Cubans who chose to maintain a faith practice were left to produce a religiosity of their own design.
- You can, in short, overdo the pomp of sci-fi prophecy, the edge of quasi-religiosity that turns decently crafted fiction into something more grandiose.
- It is often supposed that Americans' retributive streak is linked to their greater religiosity.
- Does that go as far as shopping co-religionists for any indication of heightened religiosity?
- Higher religiosity, more psychological health risk and higher scores on pro-drug social norms were associated with more frequent hard drug use.
- I have thought of myself as a lapsed Jew for these past few years, avoiding religion and religiosity.
- All of this -- the ''gut'' and ''instincts,'' the certainty and religiosity -connects to a single word, ''faith,'' and faith asserts its hold ever more on debates in this country and abroad. Archive 2004-10-01
- While to some extent modernity has interestingly provided trajectories of religions to be symbolically more prevalent concomitant with other secular institutions, it also provides another trend to the opposite, namely the bourgeoning of subjective life religiosity. The Jakarta Post Breaking News
- The second largely unanticipated development that demands reappraisal has to do with religiosity itself.
- With some exceptions, these two narratives - India's "premodern" religiosity, and its growing economy - are often presented as diametric opposites, simply unrelated, or the first and last points on something like a scale of modernity. Book Review Roundup