Layman vs Laity - What's the difference?
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layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy
by analogy, someone who is not a professional in a given field
a common person
a person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject
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a generally ignorant person
lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order
people of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.
the common man or woman
the unlearned, untrained or ignorant as in “The Layman’s Guide to Basket Weaving”
Laity is a related term of layman.
As nouns the difference between layman and laity
is that layman is layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy while laity is people of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.layman
English
(wikipedia layman)Noun
(laymen)- Carmen is not a professional anthropologist, but strictly a layman .
- Let me explain it to you in layman's terms.
- should he be held to be just a layman , or does he have some art?