| noun | someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person |
| adjective | of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations |
| adjective | characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world “worldly goods and advancement” |
| adjective | not concerned with or devoted to religion; ; ; , “sacred and profane music” |
| adjective | of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows “the secular clergy” |
| adjective | characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy “set his collar in laic rather than clerical position” |
| worldliness | noun | concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs |
| world | noun | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife |
| profaneness | noun | an attitude of irreverence or contempt for a divinity |
| laity | noun | in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy |