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sacredness

sacredness

5 5.8
A quality that makes people treat something with deep religious respect
  • noun
  • /ˈseɪkrədnəs/
translation icon : santidad
  • Many religious traditions emphasize the sacredness of their scriptures and teachings.
  • sacredness of life
  • sacredness of the earth
  • aura of sacredness

I think my best development from this year has been learning the sacredness of a morning routine.

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Examples

  • I think my best development from this year has been learning the sacredness of a morning routine.

  • No, Helene and Andre believed in the sacredness of life.

  • There can be no sacredness of the earth without the sacredness of Heaven.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Right now, the sacredness of conscious existence is something we should fight for with everything we have.

  • Once we lose sight of the sacredness of creation, we lose ourselves and may fall prey to evil.

    Academic text (1999)
  • One key symbol of this sacredness was the building of the first temple outside of the continental United States.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Indian concepts of sacredness, spirit, and religion differ from those of other cultures.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Everything retains its sacredness because everything derives directly from God.

    Academic text (2001)
  • The sacredness of the artist has been in collision with the sacredness of religion over Salman Rushdie's novel.

    Academic text (1999)
  • When we don't realize, experience, perceive the sacredness of our own true self, then our perception is an illusion of the world.

Synonyms

holiness
vssacredness
70 5.8

A state of being pure and close to God or to religious things

is the general state of religious worthiness without purity focus
sanctity
vssacredness
66 7.2

Being holy or sacred and treated with great respect

is broader, focusing on worthiness rather than saintly moral quality
sacrality
vssacredness
  • Formal
9.9

Being holy or very important in a religion

is the broader everyday label for that same religious worthiness
sanctitude
vssacredness
9.9

A state of being holy or sacred

is the more general, less scholarly expression of the same idea

How Sacred

sacredness
5 5.8
sanctity
66 7.2
holiness
70 5.8
irreverence
6 7.9
secularity
1 7.2

Surface Forms

sacredness singular
sacrednesses plural

Morphology

sacredness = sacred (transparent) = sacred + ness

Formed by the productive suffix '-ness' added to the adjective 'sacred' to denote the state or quality of being sacred, which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Sacredness comes from the old Latin root sacer, which means 'holy' or 'set apart', and you can see the same root in the common word sacrifice. So, sacredness means being 'set apart' and worthy of special respect.