religiosity

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Their goal is to keep talking about the spirituality and religiosity which is so different from the concerns taken up by the likes of Gandhi and the whole the genre of Saints of Bhakti tradition in India.

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  1. noun The quality of being religious.
  2. noun Excessive or affected piety.

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  • A humanist group released a report disputing the results of Baylor University's 2008 Religion Survey, arguing that it is atheism, not religiosity, that is on the rise in America. —  Dakota Voice
  • Their self identification doesn't really denote any kind of religiosity - just an identification of a family tradition, a set of stories, some holidays, and perfunctorily rituals. —  Latest Articles
  • Just the evangelical Republicans living a life soaked in propaganda, religiosity, and ideology while missing out on logic and a larger point of view of the world. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • Their goal is to keep talking about the spirituality and religiosity which is so different from the concerns taken up by the likes of Gandhi and the whole the genre of Saints of Bhakti tradition in India. —  Countercurrents.org
  • This study explores the relationship between race, religiosity, and depression among American adolescents. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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  1. from Middle English religiosite, from OF, religiosete, religieusete, French religiosité =Spanish religiosidad =Portuguese religiosidade = Italian religiosità, from Late Latin religiosita (t-)s, religiousness, Middle Latin religious or monastic life, from Latin religiosus, religious: see religious.
 

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/rəlɪdʒɪˈɑsəti/
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