impiety

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.

An impious act; an act of wickednes.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ungodliness wickedness disrespect sinfulness profaneness irreligion godlessness unrighteousness impiousness paganism heresy apostasy error evil wrong
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Antonyms

piety christianity maidenhead temperance godliness belief
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Hypernyms

unrighteousness

Hyponyms

irreligion irreligiousness godlessness ungodliness undutifulness

Phrases with the word

holy impiety

Derivatives

impieties

Examples

Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech. Ephrem the Syrian

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. Herbert Spencer

Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him. John Banville

If one adds anything small or great to the queen of virtues, piety, or on the other hand takes something from it, in either case he will change and transform its nature. Addition will beget superstition and subtraction will beget impiety. Philo

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety. Plato

A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent (which without impiety I cannot deny that I possess) will go to seed if he always remains in the same place. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Close letter words and terms

impictured impierce impierceable impignorate impignoration impimpi