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
  • Trump in his remarks boasted of returning religion back to the center of American politics and culture, emphasizing efforts to support prayer in school, policies targeting transgender people and the creation of a White House faith office, among other actions.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
  • According to the lawsuit, students were not required to take bags, and Robinson offered bags that accommodated other religions or did not include religious messages.
    DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 5 Feb. 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
  • That the museum aims to present a multifaceted picture of shtetl life — one that emphasizes piety, creativity and familial bonds alongside loss — is essential, said Steven Zipperstein, a Stanford University historian of Judaism and Jewish culture.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Sato Reang has an idyllic childhood until his father forces into him into a life of Islamic piety.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Her love songs have always had a strong current of devotion, but her conviction here is ironclad, her voice clarion rather than yearning.
    Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 11 Feb. 2026
  • What had begun as a friendship was now closer to devotion.
    Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026

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“Religiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/religiousness. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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