Definitions for irreligion
ˌɪr ɪˈlɪdʒ ənir·re·li·gion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. irreligiousness, irreligionnoun

   the quality of not being devout

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. irreligionnoun

   The state of being irreligious.

2. Etymology: From irréligion, from irreligionem.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Irreligionnoun

   Contempt of religion; impiety.

   Etymology: irreligion, Fr. in and religion.

   The weapons with which I combat irreligion are already consecrated. Dryden.

   We behold every instance of prophaneness and irreligion, not only committed, but defended and gloried in. John Rogers.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Irreligion

   Irreligion is the active rejection of religion in general, or any of its more specific organized forms, as distinct from absence of religion. The Oxford English dictionary defines it as want of religion; hostility to or disregard of religious principles; irreligious conduct. Irreligion takes many forms, ranging from the casual and unaware to full-fledged philosophies such as atheism and agnosticism, secular humanism and antitheism. Social scientists tend to define irreligion as a purely naturalist worldview that excludes a belief in anything supernatural. The broadest and loosest definition, serving as an upper limit, is the lack of religious identification, though many non-identifiers express metaphysical and even religious beliefs. The narrowest and strictest is subscribing to positive atheism. According to the Pew Research Center's 2012 global study of 230 countries and territories, 16% of the world's population does not identify with any religion. The population of the religiously unaffiliated, sometimes referred to as "nones", has grown significantly in recent years. Measurement of irreligiosity requires great cultural sensitivity, especially outside the West, where the concepts of "religion" or "the secular" are not always rooted in local culture.

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1. irreligion

   Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religion, or indifference towards certain or all religious beliefs. It can encompass a range of beliefs including atheism, agnosticism, skepticism, secular humanism, or apathy towards the existence of deities and the afterlife. It may also extend to the criticism of, opposition to, or hostility towards religion.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Irreligionnoun

   the state of being irreligious; want of religion; impiety

2. Etymology: [L. irreligio: cf. F. irrligion. See In- not, and Religion.]

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1. Irreligion

   Irreligion is the absence of religion, an indifference towards religion, a rejection of religion, or hostility towards religion. When characterized as the rejection of religious belief, it includes atheism, religious dissidence and secular humanism. When characterized as hostility towards religion, it includes antitheism, anticlericalism and antireligion. When characterized as indifference to religion, it includes apatheism. When characterized as the absence of religious belief, it may also include agnosticism, ignosticism, nontheism, religious skepticism and freethought. Irreligion may even include forms of theism depending on the religious context it is defined against, as in 18th century Europe where the epitome of irreligion was deism. A 2012 survey found that 36% of the world population is not religious and that between 2005 and 2012 world religiosity decreased by 9 percentage points. The Pew global report in 2010 noted that many that are not religious have some religious beliefs and the majority of nonreligious come from Asia and the Pacific. According to one source, it has been estimated that 40–50% of non-religious people hold belief in at least one deity, or in some higher power.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of irreligion in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of irreligion in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of irreligion in a Sentence

1. Swami Krishnananda:

   What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.

2. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh:

   Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=irreligion
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Irreligion
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=irreligion
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irreligion
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=irreligion