religiousness

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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. 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
  • No nation can truly represent a religion.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
  • Brian Kaylor, a Baptist pastor and president and editor-in-chief of Word&Way, a progressive site covering faith and politics, said that while the Continental Congress did call for a day of prayer, the founders crafted the Constitution to prevent the establishment of religion.
    Peter Smith, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • If this devoutness doesn’t come easy to him, that’s the point, conveyed with surprising humor and accumulating force.
    Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Navigating filial piety as a child in Vietnam and a parent in America.
    Oanh Ngo Usadi, Washington Post, 7 May 2026
  • The Lees’ acquisitions mark an impressive feat, both in terms of reclaiming national heritage and asserting personal piety.
    Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In her tribute to her father, Hawaa painted a picture of devotion, openness, self-improvement and selflessness.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026
  • The film’s climax — a long, unbroken scene in which Norman falls apart after the actor’s death, finally undone by years of devotion that went unthanked — was shot in a single take at director Peter Yates’s insistence.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026

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“Religiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/religiousness. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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