religiousness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for religiousness
Noun
  • Hajj, the world’s largest annual pilgrimage, begins today in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, as over 1 million Muslims travel to the religion's holiest city.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • Hundreds of thousands, by some estimates, embraced the religion.
    Foster Klug, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • But a groundswell of protest art was answering the call with a new kind of ardent feeling that damned the false piety and hypocrisy of homophobic Christian doctrine.
    Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
  • Wallen is constantly trying to find new ways to navigate the tension between pleasure and piety, Saturday night and Sunday morning, his horniness and his self-loathing—already the grist for a thousand doleful ballads.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Now, my devotion continues with her newest, Swept Away — a love story about two strangers who get stranded at sea together on a houseboat.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 24 May 2025
  • Elias may have to shake off his devotion to metrics and get back to signing people who can play baseball and stay healthy for the entire season.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 May 2025
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“Religiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/religiousness. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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