Religion vs Secular - What's the difference?
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The belief in and worship of a supernatural controlling power, especially a personal god or gods.
A particular system of faith and worship.
The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
Any practice that someone or some group is seriously devoted to.
(obsolete) Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
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Not specifically religious.
Temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something timeless.
(Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
Happening once in an age or century.
Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
* 2006 , The Economist,
(literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
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(astrophysics) Of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion.
(atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
* 2000 , S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy'', in ''New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539
A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
As nouns the difference between religion and secular
is that religion is religion while secular is a secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.As an adjective secular is
not specifically religious.religion
English
(wikipedia religion)Noun
(en noun)- My brother tends to value religion , but my sister not as much.
- Islam is a major religion in parts of Asia and Africa.
- Eckankar is a new religion''' but Zoroastrianism is an old '''religion .
- The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
- At this point, ''Star Trek'' has really become a religion .
- Oh with what religion doe I respect and observe the same!
Usage notes
Generally speaking, certain groups that do not acknowledge the existence of one or more deities, such as Buddhism, are still religious—though some people prefer a definition of religion without non-theistic groups within the definition. Others are in favor of a more inclusive definition of religion that recognizes that everyone has their own set of religious beliefs.Synonyms
* faith * mythologyHyponyms
* See alsoHypernyms
* belief systemDerived terms
* Abrahamic religion * false religion * pseudoreligion * misreligionSee also
* afterlife * animism * atheism * belief * church * crusade * cult * druid * faith * jihad * holy * holy man * monk * monotheism * mystic * nun * order * polytheism * priest * reincarnation * sacred * sage * sect * seer * shaman * shrine * spiritual leader * spirituality * superstition * temple * wizard *Statistics
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- secular clergy in Catholicism
- The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
- The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
- ''on a secular basis
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- The skewed distribution of productivity gains is thus less a new phenomenon than a secular trend.
- The long reaches that were like one and the same reach, monotonous bends that were exactly alike, slipped past the steamer with their multitude of secular trees looking patiently after this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings.
- The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ?? and ?? are derived from eqn.(21) by ...
Synonyms
* (not religious) worldlyAntonyms
* nonsecular * (not religious) religious * (not religious) sacred (used especially of music) * (not bound by monastic vows) monastic * (not bound by monastic vows) regular (as regular clergy in Catholicism) * eternal, everlasting * frequent * unpredictable * non-recurring * (finance) short-term * (finance) cyclicalReferences
*Webster's English Dictionary
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