fanaticism

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Etymology

From fanatic +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fəˈnæt.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/
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Noun

fanaticism (countable and uncountable, plural fanaticisms)

  1. The characteristic or practice of being a fanatic.
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. , volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 35:
      The demon of fanaticism was the shape which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce the spiritual chaos to any sort of order.

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