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

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fanaticism, fanatism, zealotrynoun

   excessive intolerance of opposing views

   Synonyms:
   zealotry, fanatism

How to use fanaticism in a sentence?

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. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte:

   Our values and our rule of law are stronger than their fanaticism.

3. 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.

4. Reinhold Niebuhr:

   The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

5. President Tayyip Erdogan:

   Using sacred Islam's name, exploiting it, this terrorist group which spills Muslim blood has gone as far as attacking the town where the mosque and blessed remains of our Prophet are located, daesh is a dagger plunged into the chest of Muslims. Whoever gives support to this group, whether out of sectarian fanaticism or another motive, commits the same sin.

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