Im·pi·ous a.  Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language.
 When vice prevails, and impious men bear away,
 The post of honor is a private station.   --Addison.
 Syn: -- Impious, Irreligious, Profane.
 Usage: Irreligious is negative, impious and profane are positive. An indifferent man may be irreligious; a profane man is irreverent in speech and conduct; an impious man is wickedly and boldly defiant in the strongest sense. Profane also has the milder sense of secular.
 -- Im*pi*ous*ly, adv. -- Im*pi*ous*ness, n.

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 impiousness
      n : unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god [syn:
           impiety] [ant: piety]