irreverence

From Middle English irreverence, from Latin irreverentia, from irreverēns (“irreverent”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns).^[1] By surface analysis, ir- +‎ reverence.

irreverence (usually uncountable, plural irreverences)

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

• irreverent
• irreverential
• reverence

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “irreverence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “irreverence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.