ANTIRITUALISM Antonyms

• faithful support for a cause or political party or religion

• the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition

• a formal event performed on a special occasion

• any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way

• the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion

• correspondence in form or appearance

• acting according to certain accepted standards

• orthodoxy in thoughts and belief

• concurrence of opinion

• hardened conventionality

• a large formal assembly

• something regarded as a normative example

• (diplomacy) an international agreement

• orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

• the act of convening

• the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented

• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications

• the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms

• the act of observing; taking a patient look

• a formal event performed on a special occasion

• the act of noticing or paying attention

• conformity with law or custom or practice etc.

• the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion)

• a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards

• the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies

• exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship

• an inherited pattern of thought or action

• a specific practice of long standing