impiety

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impiety

Rhymes with -aɪɪti

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From Old French impieté, from Latin impietas, from in- (“not”) + pietas (“piety”), from pius (“pious, devout”) + -tās (“-ty, -dom”). By surface analysis, impious + -ety.

noun impieties

uncountable, usually The state of being impious.
Similar: ungodliness
countable, usually An impious act. [I]f the world and motion were not from Eternity, then God was Idle; were all the Aſſertions of Ariſtotle, which Theology pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not ſtrange at from one, of whom a Father ſaith, Nec Deum coluit nec curavit [he neither worshipped nor cared for God]: […]
uncountable, usually The lack of respect for a god or something sacred.
Similar: disrespect, disregard

Similar: ungodliness

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Similar: ungodliness

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noun the state of being impious

Español	impiedad
Français	impiété
Deutsch	Pietätlosigkeit
Ελληνικά	ανοσιότητα anosiótita

noun an impious act

Español	impiedad
Deutsch	Pietätlosigkeit
Ελληνικά	ανοσιότητα anosiótita

noun lack of respect for a god or something sacred

Español	impiedad
Русский	нечестивость nečestivostʹ, непочтительность nepočtitelʹnostʹ

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@misc{impiety_2026,
  title = {impiety},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/impiety},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}