Usually means: Disrespectful disregard for tradition, authority.
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  1. irreverence: Merriam-Webster
  2. irreverence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. irreverence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. irreverence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. irreverence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Irreverence, irreverence: Wordnik
  7. irreverence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. irreverence: Wiktionary
  9. irreverence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. irreverence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. irreverence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Irreverence, irreverence: Dictionary.com
  13. irreverence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. irreverence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Irreverence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Irreverence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. irreverence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. irreverence: Rhymezone
  19. Irreverence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. irreverence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. irreverence: FreeDictionary.org
  22. irreverence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. irreverence: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. irreverence: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (irreverence)

▸ noun:  The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior.

Similar:
violation, irreverency, disrespectfulness, reverentness, reverentiality, reverentialness, reveredness, respectlessness, impudence, irreceptivity, more...

Opposite:
reverence, dignity, dignified

Types:
disrespect, impudence, insolence, blasphemy, sacrilege, more...

Phrases:
irreverence but neutral, sophisticated irreverence, opposite of irreverence, irreverence to god, more...

Adjectives:
such, great, apparent, certain, intentional, gross, much, playful, general, healthy, flippant


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Similar:
violation, irreverency, disrespectfulness, reverentness, reverentiality, reverentialness, reveredness, respectlessness, impudence, irreceptivity, more...

Opposite:
reverence, dignity, dignified

Types:
disrespect, impudence, insolence, blasphemy, sacrilege, more...

Phrases:
irreverence but neutral, sophisticated irreverence, opposite of irreverence, irreverence to god, more...

Adjectives:
such, great, apparent, certain, intentional, gross, much, playful, general, healthy, flippant



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