Fanaticism
[fə'nætɪsɪz(ə)m] or [fə'nætɪsɪzəm]
Definition
(n.) Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Religious frenzy, irrational enthusiasm.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Frenzy, enthusiasm, superstition, bigotry
ANT:Indifference, latitudinarianism, disbelief, profanity, disregard, skepticism,coldness, cynicism
Typist: Preston
Examples
- I call that the fanaticism of sympathy, said Will, impetuously. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Whether their fanaticism for number was owing to the influence of Egyptian priests or had an Oriental origin, it gave to the Pythagoreans an enthusiasm for pure mathematics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In a moment she relapsed into the delirium of fanaticism, and, but that her gentle nature forbade, would have loaded me with execrations. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The fate of Miriam had indeed been to fall a sacrifice to the fanaticism of the times; but her secrets had survived in her apt pupil. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I will break forth and fly, said Bois-Guilbert--fly to some distant land, to which folly and fanaticism have not yet found their way. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Religious fanaticism they have none. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A shock of heaven and earth is felt--not by the slumbering city, only by that lonely watcher, brave and unshaken in his fanaticism. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Came an interlude of fanaticism or pedantry, when all the pressure was upon exact doctrine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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