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Unbelief vs Irreligion - What's the difference?

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Unbelief is a related term of irreligion.


As nouns the difference between unbelief and irreligion

is that unbelief is an absence (or rejection) of belief, especially religious belief while irreligion is irreligion, irreligiousness.

unbelief

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An absence (or rejection) of belief, especially religious belief
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Mark VI:
    • And he coulde there shewe no myracles butt leyd his hondes apon a feawe sicke foolke and healed them. And he merveyled at their unbelefe .
  • * 1931 , (William Faulkner), Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 35:
    • On hands and knees he looked at the empty siding and up at the sunfilled sky with unbelief and despair.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 781:
    • Soon Spinoza was regarded as the standard-bearer for unbelief , even though pervading his carefully-worded writings there is a clear notion of a divine spirit inhabiting the world, and a profound sense of wonder and reverence for mystery.

    See also

    * disbelief * doubt

    irreligion

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being irreligious.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
    • Lucretius' irreligion is too strong, / For early stomachs, to prove wholesome food [...].
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