secularism
sek yuh luh ri zuhm
- n a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations
- It is not secularism as such that is characteristic of the present religious situation in this country but secularism within a religious framework, the secularism of religious .
- Kemal Ataturk, the most daring of them, introduced Turkey, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, to Western-style secularism in order to toughen his society against .
- Despite his parents' secularism, or perhaps because of it, Einstein rather suddenly developed a passionate zeal for Judaism.