secularly
In nonreligious fashion
In a secular manner—without reference to religion or spiritual matters.
A government operating secularly keeps church and state separate.
The term also describes things happening over long time spans: Species evolve secularly, changing gradually across millennia.
This temporal sense connects to the Latin root meaning "age" or "generation."
Concerning time's dimension
- worldlyExperienced in practical affairs
- finitelyIn limited measure
- transitorilyIn a passing manner
- impermanentlyIn non-lasting fashion
fleetingly · ephemerally · historically · chronologically · periodically · generationally · contemporarily · modernly
With good manners
- publiclyIn open view
- governmentallyIn a state-administered manner
- institutionallyBy formal systems
- constitutionallyBy fundamental law or nature
legally · politically · socially · communally · municipally · state-run · nonsectarian · nondenominational
Without spiritual orientation
- atheisticallyWithout belief in gods
- agnosticallyWithout claiming certainty
- humanisticallyIn a person-centered manner
- godlesslyWithout acknowledging deity
freethinking · materialistically · naturalistically · empirically · skeptically · pluralistically · secularization · disenchantment
temporally
Concerning time's dimension
- worldlyExperienced in practical affairs
- finitelyIn limited measure
- transitorilyIn a passing manner
impermanently · fleetingly · ephemerally · historically · chronologically · periodically · generationally · contemporarily · modernly · progressively
civilly
With good manners
- publiclyIn open view
- governmentallyIn a state-administered manner
- institutionallyBy formal systems
constitutionally · legally · politically · socially · communally · municipally · state-run · nonsectarian · nondenominational · pluralistically
nonreligiously
Without spiritual orientation
- atheisticallyWithout belief in gods
- agnosticallyWithout claiming certainty
- humanisticallyIn a person-centered manner
godlessly · freethinking · materialistically · naturalistically · empirically · skeptically · pluralistically · secularization · disenchantment · profanely
secularlyreligiously
With strict regularity
spiritually · ecclesiastically · divinely · piously · devoutly
secularlyholily
In sacred manner
transcendently · reverently · mystically · ceremonially · ritually
- 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
secular, secularism, secularist, secularize, secularity, secularists, secularized, secularizes, secularizing