profanation

Definitions

The act of treating something sacred with irreverence or disrespect.

The action of desecrating or debasing something holy or highly respected.

Examples

The protesters were arrested for the profanation of the national monument.

Many locals viewed the construction of the shopping mall on the sacred burial ground as a terrible profanation.

Synonyms

desecration sacrilege blasphemy violation irreverence defilement pollution

Antonyms

reverence veneration sanctification consecration piety devotion holiness