Saecularity
/ˌsiːkjʊˈlærɪti/noun
The quality of being secular; worldly or nonreligious character.
Did you know?Its root is Latin saeculum, meaning an age or generation, a word that also fed the idea of a saeculum as a cosmic span in Roman religion and politics.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*seh₂i-
“to bind, tie together”
Latin
Latin
saeculum
“a generation, lifetime, age; later also an age of the world”
Late Latin
Latin
saecularis
“of an age, worldly, belonging to the present age”
Old French
Old French
seculer
“worldly, nonreligious”
Middle English
English
seculer / secular
“worldly; not ecclesiastical”
Modern English
English
saecularity
“the quality or condition of being secular”
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