Antonyms 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.

   Antonyms:
   cynicism, free-thinking, indifference, latitudinarianism

   Synonyms:
   bigotry, credulity, intolerance, superstition

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1. fanaticism

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

   Synonyms:
   frenzy, enthusiasm, superstition, bigotry

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1. • Intolerance

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1. fanaticism, fanatism, zealotrynoun

   excessive intolerance of opposing views

   Synonyms:
   zealotry, fanatism

How to use fanaticism in a sentence?

1. William Cowper:

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

2. Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000:

   I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.

3. 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.

4. Moses Valmont:

   good and bad!!..we always get mixed with the real truths and paths concerning this two with fanaticism and hypocrisy. till darkness envelopes and you awaken to the father to learn about the real truths. but I pray ye to desire to be with his flock or face condemnation....just do what thou wilt ,conscience and his laws being your compass!!

5. Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON:

   Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

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