impiety en · NOUN
Etymology
From Old French impieté, from Latin impietas, from in- (“not”) + pietas (“piety”), from pius (“pious, devout”) + -tās (“-ty, -dom”). By surface analysis, impious + -ety.
Meanings
- (uncountable, usually) The state of being impious.
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(countable, usually) An impious act.
[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]: […]
1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XIX, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 184:
- (uncountable, usually) The lack of respect for a god or something sacred.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| impieties | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
ungodliness (state of being impious) · ungodliness (impious behavior) · disregard (lack of respect) · disrespect (lack of respect)
Translations (21)
de Pietätlosigkeit (the state of being impious) · fr impiété (the state of being impious) · lt bedieviškumas (the state of being impious) · bg неблагочестивост (the state of being impious) · es impiedad (the state of being impious) · el ανοσιότητα (an impious act) · ru нечестивость (lack of respect for a god or something sacred) · sv hänsynslöshet (lack of respect for a god or something sacred) · es impiedad (an impious act) · ga aindiagacht (lack of respect for a god or something sacred) · grc ἀσέβημα (an impious act) · ga éagráifeacht (lack of respect for a god or something sacred) · sv obarmhärtighet (lack of respect for a god or something sacred) · sv ogudaktighet (the state of being impious) · el ανοσιότητα (the state of being impious) · ga éagráifeacht (the state of being impious) · bg безбожие (lack of respect for a god or something sacred) · ga aindiagacht (the state of being impious) · es impiedad (lack of respect for a god or something sacred) · de Pietätlosigkeit (an impious act) · ru непочтительность (lack of respect for a god or something sacred)