piety

Other forms of piety

plural

pieties·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about piety

What does piety mean?

piety means "righteousness by virtue of being pious".

How many syllables are in piety?

piety has 3 syllables: pi-e-ty. The stress falls on "pi". In IPA it is /ˈpaɪəti/.

What is another word for piety?

Close synonyms include piousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of piety?

The recorded antonyms are impiety.

Is piety a common word?

piety is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.