laicity

noun
/leɪˈɪsɪti/UK/leɪˈɪsɪti/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French laïcité. By surface analysis, laic + -ity.

  1. borrowed from laïcité

Definitions

  1. The control or influence of the laity or the fact of being lay.

  2. Alternative form of laïcité.

  3. Synonym of secularism.

    • A correlation may be observed between the subjects studied in the masonic assemblies and those discussed in the Radical and Radical-Socialist party congresses: between 1901 and 1910 these subjects included state laicity, [...]
    • This shows that there can be laicity even where there is no formal separation [of Church and State].
    • In this sense, there is no doubt that the concept of laicity has been tremendously useful.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA