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Recent Examples of religiousness
There's a sort of a natural world religiousness or spirituality or philosophy that swells around a lot of things and different characters.
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Rebecca Ford,
Vanity Fair,
6 Jan. 2026
Key measures of religiousness have remained remarkably stable since 2020, according to recent Pew Research Center polling.
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Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
Rebecca Ford,
Vanity Fair,
6 Jan. 2026
Key measures of religiousness have remained remarkably stable since 2020, according to recent Pew Research Center polling.
—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for religiousness
Noun
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If religion is corrupted by breaking down the wall of separation, much the same is true of the state.
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Hinduism is a narrative religion; its mercurial wisdom is lightened and sweetened by stories, softened by ambiguities, sharpened by paradoxes.
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If this devoutness doesn’t come easy to him, that’s the point, conveyed with surprising humor and accumulating force.
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At the height of her piousness, Adele is confronted with a substitute English teacher, Bromley Stokes, a hippie from San Francisco, who, to her dismay, changes all the rules of school.
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Christianity is one of the state’s primary means of control, but for the girls who grew up at the Aunt Lydia School, piousness is real.
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To be a nation founded on an ideal makes our love of country a more vital force than any instinctive pieties of blood and soil.
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While this is considered a trait of piety and beauty in art, it may have been caused by Simonetta’s pituitary tumor.
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To his supporters, Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was the steadfast, fearless leader who transcended mere politics and inspired devotion.
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What makes these behaviors especially dangerous is that they’re often disguised as concern or devotion.
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“Religiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/religiousness. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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