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#* {{quote-book|en|title=The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vA8edg7bv0kC|page=724|year=2007|passage=This shows that there can be '''laicity''' even where there is no formal separation [of Church and State].}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vA8edg7bv0kC|page=724|year=2007|passage=This shows that there can be '''laicity''' even where there is no formal separation [of Church and State].}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Second International Handbook of Urban Education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gXLbDQAAQBAJ|page=596|year=2017|passage=In this sense, there is no doubt that the concept of '''laicity''' has been tremendously useful.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Second International Handbook of Urban Education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gXLbDQAAQBAJ|page=596|year=2017|passage=In this sense, there is no doubt that the concept of '''laicity''' has been tremendously useful.}}

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French laïcité. Surface etymology laic +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

Noun

laicity (countable and uncountable, plural laicities)

  1. Synonym of secularism
    • 1949, The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science[1], page 73:
      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, [...]
    • 2007, The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion[2], page 724:
      This shows that there can be laicity even where there is no formal separation [of Church and State].
    • 2017, Second International Handbook of Urban Education[3], page 596:
      In this sense, there is no doubt that the concept of laicity has been tremendously useful.