<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.</li><li>Synonyms: impiety, sacrilege, profanity.</li><li>Judaism: an act of cursing or reviling God.</li><li>Pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton (YHWH) in the original, now forbidden manner instead of using a substitute pronunciation such as Adonai.</li><li>Theology: the crime of assuming to oneself the rights or qualities of God.</li><li>Irreverent behavior toward anything held sacred, priceless, etc.: He uttered blasphemies against life itself.</li></ul>