Definition of Godlessness

1. Noun. The doctrine or belief that there is no God.

Exact synonyms: Atheism
Generic synonyms: Religious Orientation
Derivative terms: Atheist, Atheistic, Atheistic, Godless
Antonyms: Theism

2. Noun. Impiety by virtue of not being a godly person.
Exact synonyms: Ungodliness
Generic synonyms: Impiety, Impiousness
Derivative terms: Godless, Ungodly
Antonyms: Godliness

Definition of Godlessness

1. Noun. The state of being godless ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Godlessness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Godlessness

godfatherlike
godfatherly
godfathers
godfearing
godforsaken
godforsakenly
godforsakenness
godheads
godhood
godhoods
godi
godild
godis
godless
godlessly
godlessness (current term)
godlessnesses
godlevskite
godlier
godliest
godlike
godlikeness
godlikenesses
godlily
godliness
godlinesses
godling
godlings
godly
godlyhead

Literary usage of Godlessness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Personal (362 AD) " for godlessness and other History of evil deeds"; while to-day he is reck- Meletius. oned as a saint by both the Roman and the Greek ..."

2. History of Central America by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... ARRIVES AT SANTIAGO—HB is APPOINTED BISHOP— godlessness OF THE COLONISTS—THE ... godlessness ..."

3. The Friendly Craft: A Collection of American Letters edited by Elizabeth Deering Hanscom (1908)
"DOLLY Mrs. Jackson witnesses the occupation of Pensacola, and laments the godlessness of the Spanish -<o PENSACOLA, ..."

4. Spiritual Culture and Social Service by Charles Stedman Macfarland (1912)
"IV THE HOPELESSNESS OF godlessness " ^1T "IT THOM have I in heaven but Thee? \/\/ and there is none upon earth that I » * desire but Thee. ..."

5. The Thinker: A Review of World-wide Christian Thought (1892)
"THE PRIVATIONS OF godlessness. For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, when God taketh away his soul ? Will God hear his cry when ..."

6. A Study in Socialism by Benedict Elder (1915)
"CHAPTER THREE THE RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLE I. godlessness Socialism cannot properly be said to have a religious principle. Religion, in its most comprehensive ..."

7. A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe by John William Draper (1863)
"Its practical godlessness. EGYPT a mysterious Country to the old Europeans.—Its History, great public Works, and for. eign Relations—its Fall. ..."

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