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Laïcité
In French, some other Romance Languages, and Turkish, laïcité (pronounced ), Turkish: laiklik or laisizm, Italian: laicità or laicismo, is a prevailing conception of secularism and the absence of religious interference in government affairs, and vice-versa. While it is thought that there is no English word that captures the exact meaning of "laïcité", which comes from the Greek λαϊκός (which means "layman"), it is related to the English word "laity" or "laymen", and "laicity" is the natural English spelling or rendering of the French term.
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