secularism (redirected from secularistic)

sec·u·lar·ism  (sky-l-rzm)

n.

1. Religious skepticism or indifference.

2. The view that religious considerations should be excluded from civil affairs or public education.

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secu·lar·ist n.

secu·lar·istic adj.

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secularism

Noun

the belief that religion should have no place in civil affairs

secularist nadj

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secularism

1. a view that religion and religious considerations should be ignored or excluded from social and political matters.
2. an ethical system asserting that moral judgments should be made without reference to religious doctrine, as reward or punishment in an afterlife. — secularist, n., adj. — secularistic, adj.

See also: Religion

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

secularism - a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought - a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school