Synonyms for religion
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Faith — belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices…
2. Creed — A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it
3. Worship
worship, piety, devotion, reverence, devoutness rare
Other
theology, organized religion, organised religion UK, pietism
Definitions
- n. 1
Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
- n. 2
A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
Near-synonyms: credo, creed
- n. 3
The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
Related words
- Word family
- religicide religionary religionism religionist religious religism religist religitard
- Phrases
- freedom of religion organized religion find religion get religion
- Is a kind of
- belief system
Forms
- Plural
- religions → faiths, beliefs, theisms, creeds…
Choose the right word
Religion, in the fullest and highest sense, includes all the other words of this group. Theology is the science of religion, or the study and scientific statement of all that the human mind can know of God.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- faith All the members but me have faith in what he says.
- belief She helped him in the belief that he was innocent.
- creed The laws apply to everyone irrespective of race, creed or color.
- worship If you worship God alone, you will go to paradise.
By length
- 5 letters
- faith1, creed1, piety3, credo2
- 6 letters
- belief2, theism3
- 7 letters
- worship2, pietism3
- 8 letters
- theology4, devotion3
- 9 letters
- reverence3
- 10 letters
- devoutness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (piety3 = 3 syllables).