This embedded usage often cause a semantic cloudiness in Turkish. .
As a concept, secularism arises from the Latin word "seacularis" denoting to "worldly" and "corporeality or materialistic". In Webster dictionary, it is defined as a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations. To make more clearing, secularism signifies an independence from religion and church; not pertaining to clergies or to side with the arrangement of the daily life and social moral standards out of the order or the influence of religions. Historically, this term was used for the first time about 1846 by George Jacob Holyoake to denote "a form of opinion which concerns itself only with questions, the issues of which can be tested by the experience of this life" mainly designating the English Secularism. The dictionary meaning and the historic subsequent form of secularism, consists of certain scales of laicist elements and resembles very much to laicism. However, the thin difference among the concepts of laicism and secularism arise when they apply as a preference of modern state's social and political management. Before indicating the major examples of such a discrimination, some other concepts as "tolerance" and "atheism" also needs to be explained.
Actually, there seems to be a no clear explanation for tolerance. What so ever, it is more closed to the concept of being secular? Tolerance could be defined as an acknowledgment and endurance of an individual and social freedom of the "others" faith and thoughts, whether the others thoughts are contrary any opposite. Even, it is more than a sensation of others freedom and the behaviour of patience, it consists of a tender approach to the opposite thoughts.
Usually atheism is used for laicism. It seems that it is a conscious attitude to raise unattractiveness instead of its real meaning. The Webster dictionary defines the word as "the disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being".
