Synonyms for fanaticism
fəˈnæt əˌsɪz əmfa·nati·cism

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1. fanaticism

   Fanaticism is extravagant or even frenzied zeal; bigotry is obstinate and unreasoning attachment to a cause or creed; fanaticism and bigotry usually include intolerance, which is unwillingness to tolerate beliefs or opinions contrary to one's own; superstition is ignorant and irrational religious belief. Credulity is not distinctively religious, but is a general readiness to believe without sufficient evidence, with a proneness to accept the marvellous. Bigotry is narrow, fanaticism is fierce, superstition is ignorant, credulity is weak, intolerance is severe. Bigotry has not the capacity to reason fairly, fanaticism has not the patience, superstition has not the knowledge and mental discipline, intolerance has not the disposition. Bigotry, fanaticism, and superstition are perversions of the religious sentiment; credulity and intolerance often accompany skepticism or atheism.

   Synonyms:
   bigotry, credulity, intolerance, superstition

   Antonyms:
   cynicism, free-thinking, indifference, latitudinarianism

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1. fanaticism

   Synonyms:
   frenzy, enthusiasm, superstition, bigotry

   Antonyms:
   indifference, latitudinarianism, disbelief, profanity, disregard, skepticism, coldness, cynicism

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1. fanaticism, fanatism, zealotrynoun

   excessive intolerance of opposing views

   Synonyms:
   zealotry, fanatism

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1. • Intolerance

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1. fanaticismnoun

   Synonyms:
   religious frenzy, irrational enthusiasm

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1. List of paraphrases for "fanaticism":

   bigotry, fanatical, intolerance, fanatic

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1. Tony Abbott:

   I don't think it would be possible to witness uglier fanaticism than this, monstrous extremism than this, and I regret to say it is now present in our country.

2. John Calhoun:

   The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

3. William Cowper:

   Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.

4. Penn Badgley:

   The point of my comment was not to confess a personal trauma, i was speaking about the way emotional and physical boundaries are violated for someone in the public eye, who is seen as an object of desire. Depending on so many factors, it can range from conscious abuse to something very unconscious -- and that is the point I was making, cautiously, in the context of a conversation about fanaticism and cultural norms which support manipulative or abusive behavior. These are the same norms which support predatory men, but not exclusively predatory men. They affect, and infect, us all.

5. Marquis de Sade:

   Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.