English
impiousness
From impious + -ness.
Formed from impious + -ness
Proto-Indo-European *pewH- ‘to be clean, pure’
Proto-Italic *pīos ‘pious, devout’
Latin pius ‘pious, devout’
Latin impius ‘godless, impious, unpatriotic’
English impious
Today it means
noun Quality of being impious.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / impiousness