impiety
noun
[ ɪmˈpʌɪɪti ]
• lack of piety or reverence.
• "he blamed the fall of the city on the impiety of the people"
Similar:
godlessness,
ungodliness,
unholiness,
irreligion,
sinfulness,
sin,
vice,
immorality,
unrighteousness,
sacrilege,
profaneness,
irreverence,
disrespect,
apostasy,
atheism,
agnosticism,
paganism,
heathenism,
non-belief,
disbelief,
unbelief,
scepticism,
doubt,
transgression,
wrongdoing,
evil-doing,
wrong,
misdeed,
misdemeanour,
bad deed,
act of wickedness,
immoral act,
fall from grace,
profanity,
blasphemy,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French impiete or Latin impietas, from impius ‘impious’.
