laicity

/leɪˈɪsɪti/

Etymology

Borrowed from French laïcité. By surface analysis, laic + -ity.

noun

  1. The control or influence of the laity or the fact of being lay.
  2. Synonym of secularism.“A correlation may be observed between the subjects studied in the masonic assemblies and those discussed in the Radical and Radical-Socialist party congresses: between 1901 and 1910 these subjects included state laicity, [...]”