secular
Apart from church
Secular, an adjective, refers to things that are not sacred (connected with religion).
When used to describe a state, government, party, or society, secular indicates that there are no formal ties with or strong influence from an established religion.
Secular music is non-religious, like most popular music.
Secular education is in subjects not connected with religion or religious belief.
Commonplace, lacking excitement
- earthlyOf this world
- temporalRelating to chronology
- materialPhysical matter; pertinent
- physicalOf body or matter
everyday · ordinary · practical · pragmatic · this-worldly · immanent · profane · nonsacred
Flexible across platforms
- atheistOne denying gods exist
- humanistEthics-focused secular philosopher
- freethinkerRejects doctrine for reason
- skepticOne who doubts claims
irreligious · nonbeliever · rationalist · empiricist · naturalist · materialist · unaffiliated · unchurched
Authority over a state
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
- democracyRule by the people
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- judiciaryLaw-interpreting government branch
parliament · republic · state · public · policy · citizenship · suffrage · electorate
mundane
Commonplace, lacking excitement
physical · everyday · ordinary · practical · pragmatic · this-worldly · immanent · profane · nonsacred · terrestrial
agnostic
Flexible across platforms
- atheistOne denying gods exist
- humanistEthics-focused secular philosopher
- freethinkerRejects doctrine for reason
skeptic · irreligious · nonbeliever · rationalist · empiricist · naturalist · materialist · unaffiliated · unchurched · nonpracticing
government
Authority over a state
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
- democracyRule by the people
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
judiciary · parliament · republic · state · public · policy · citizenship · suffrage · electorate · administration
centuries
Hundred-year periods
age · long-term · generational · gradual · historical · enduring · periodic · cyclical · trend · inflation
- secularworldly, temporal, mundane, profane, lay
- event adjectivesannual, scheduled, planned, recurring, upcoming
- non-magicalmundane, ordinary, natural, physical, earthly
- faith labelsbeliever, nonbeliever, atheist, agnostic, theist
- Unbeliefatheism, agnosticism, irreligion, nonbelief, disbelief
- FaithsChristians, Catholics, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews
secularreligious
Of faith or worship
sacred · spiritual · faith-based · theocratic · nonsecular
secularsacred
Worthy of reverence
holy · divine · sanctified · hallowed · consecrated
secularregular
Occurring at fixed intervals
monastic · cloistered · conventual · religious · mendicant
- secular stateGovernment separate from religion
- secular societyCulture separating state from religion
- secular humanistOne embracing nontheistic ethics
- secular educationInstruction without religious doctrine
- secular schoolsEducational institutions without religious affiliation
- secular thoughtNon-religious reasoning and philosophy
secularism, secularist, secularization, secularize, secularity, secularists, secular humanism, secularized, secularizes