impieties
Sins against divinity
Impieties are acts or attitudes showing irreverence toward what others hold sacred—violations of religious duty, disrespect for the divine, or contempt for revered traditions.
The word carries a formal, somewhat archaic tone: The priest catalogued the impieties of the modern age.
An impiety can be as small as a blasphemous joke or as large as desecrating a temple.
Violation of the hallowed
- profanityVulgar or obscene speech
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- desecrationViolating something sacred
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
profanation · godlessness · irreligion · atheism · defilement · cursing · swearing · anathema
Breaking of rules
- vandalismWillful property damage
- defilementAct of corrupting purity
- profanationViolation of sanctity
- pollutionEnvironmental harm from waste
degradation · contamination · destruction · spoliation · corruption · outrage · pillaging · debasement
sacrilege
Violation of the hallowed
- profanityVulgar or obscene speech
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- desecrationViolating something sacred
apostasy · profanation · godlessness · irreligion · atheism · defilement · cursing · swearing · anathema · excommunication
violation
Breaking of rules
- vandalismWillful property damage
- defilementAct of corrupting purity
- profanationViolation of sanctity
pollution · degradation · contamination · destruction · spoliation · corruption · outrage · pillaging · debasement · sacrilege
irreverence
Disregard for what's honored
mockery · derision · scoffing · insolence · defiance · disparagement · affront · insult · indignity · disregard
impietiespieties
Acts of reverence
reverence · piety · devoutness · holiness · godliness
impietiesmoralities
Standards of right conduct
righteousness · virtues · sanctimony · rectitude · probity
piety, pious, impiety, impious, piously, piousness, impiousness