piety

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

piety [piety pieties] BrE [ˈpaɪəti] NAmE [ˈpaɪəti] noun uncountable
the state of having or showing a deep respect for sb/sth, especially for God and religion; the state of being ↑pious
Opp: ↑impiety

Word Origin:
early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘devotion to religious observances’): from Old French piete, from Latin pietas ‘dutifulness’, from pius ‘dutiful, pious’.

• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  impiety, impiousness