Blasphemy

Noun

 * 1) Irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable.
 * 2) The act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for any religion's deity or deities.
 * 3) The act of claiming the attributes of a deity.

Adjectives for Blasphemy
loud; lurid; startling; horrible; unspeakable; soul-searing; abominable; willful; hideous; shrill; vast; raucous; intricate;illimitable; half-inarticulate.

Synonyms

 * (irreverent language): cursing, cussing, execration, imprecation, profanity, swearing
 * (unholy act): profanation, desecration, sacrilege, violation

Antonyms

 * reverence, veneration, worship, adoration

Derived terms

 * blasphemous; blasphemously; blasphemousness

Thesaurus
abuse, affront, anathema, ban, befouling, billingsgate, blasphemousness, commination, curse, cursing, cussing, damnation, denunciation, desecration, evil eye, excommunication, execration, fulmination, hex, impiety, imprecation, indignity, insult, malison, malocchio, profanation, profaneness, profanity, proscription, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness, scurrility, swearing, thundering, violation, vituperation, whammy

Etymology
blasfemie:, from blasphemia:, from  βλασφημία:, from βλασφημέω:.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/'bl{s.f@.mi/}}