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Definition: Godlessness |
GodlessnessNoun1. The doctrine or belief that there is no God. 2. Impiety by virtue of not being a godly person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: GodlessnessSynonyms: atheism (n), ungodliness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: godliness (n), theism (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Irreligion | Noun: irreligion, indevotion; godlessness, ungodliness; Adjective: laxity, quietism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Godlessness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Godlessness" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "godlessness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | jumalattomuus (ungodliness). (various references) | |
German | Gottlosigkeit (ungodliness, impiousness). (various references) | |
Greek | ασέβεια (irreverence), αθεία (atheism). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kefasikan. (various references) | |
Italian | empietà (impiety, impiousness), ateismo (atheism). (various references) | |
Manx | anjeeys (atheism). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | odlessnessgay.(various references) | |
Russian | безбожие. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "godlessness": godlessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Godlessness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: guilessness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-l-n-o-s-s-s-s" | |
-2 letters: oldnesses. | |
-3 letters: lessoned, noseless, soleness, songless. | |
-4 letters: dongles, dossels, egoless, endless, gessoed, gessoes, glossed, glosses, godless, legends, lessens, lessons, loesses, oldness, sledges, sonless. | |
-5 letters: donees, dongle, dossel, dosses, geodes, gledes, gleeds, gnoses, golden, ledges, legend, lensed, lenses, leones, lessen, lesson, lodens, lodges, longed, longes, losses, nesses, sedges, segnos, sensed, senses, sledge, sondes. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-l-n-o-s-s-s-s" | |
+2 letters: godlessnesses. | |
+3 letters: gladsomenesses, groundlessness. | |
+5 letters: groundlessnesses. | |
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