IMPIETY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impiety mean? 

• IMPIETY (noun)
  The noun IMPIETY has 1 sense:

1. unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god

  Familiarity information: IMPIETY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPIETY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

impiety; impiousness

Hypernyms ("impiety" is a kind of...):

unrighteousness (failure to adhere to moral principles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "impiety"):

undutifulness (impiety characterized by lack of devotion to duty)

irreligion; irreligiousness (the quality of not being devout)

godlessness; ungodliness (impiety by virtue of not being a godly person)

Antonym:

piety (righteousness by virtue of being pious)

 Context examples 

There are some landmarks, observed Mr. Micawber, looking fondly back over his shoulder, on the road to the tomb, which, but for the impiety of the aspiration, a man would wish never to have passed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have understood that it was, to the last, her proudest boast, that she never had been on the water in her life, except upon a bridge; and that over her tea (to which she was extremely partial) she, to the last, expressed her indignation at the impiety of mariners and others, who had the presumption to go meandering about the world.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)