Religious

The adjective religious basically has two different meanings that can only be deduced from the context used:

• related to (a concrete) religion - a collective worldview based on belief in certain transcendent forces
• related to religiosity - the individual feeling of a transcendent reality ( not necessarily tied to a religion)

The following terms are often used synonymously, but each have different meanings:

• believing (related to a (religious) belief): see belief
• pious (related to the attitude and way of life that is deeply rooted in a belief or religion): see piety
• godly (related to the reverence of a god): see godly fear
• ecclesiastical (related to the institution of the church): see church (organization)
• Christian (related to Christianity): see Christianity

See also:

• Religious

Wiktionary: religious  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.