3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Fanaticism \Fa*nat"i*cism\, n. [Cf. {Fanatism}.] Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion, politics or ideology; religious frenzy. Syn: See {Superstition}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: fanaticism n : excessive intolerance of opposing views [syn: {zealotry}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 150 Moby Thesaurus words for "fanaticism": agitation, authoritarianism, balkiness, bias, bibliolatry, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, bluster, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bullheadedness, cacophony, chaos, charismatic gift, charismatic movement, charismatic renewal, closed mind, commotion, cramped ideas, dedication, determination, devotedness, devotion, disturbance, doggedness, dogmatism, ebullition, embroilment, enthusiasm, excessiveness, extravagance, extremeness, extremism, fanaticalness, ferment, fervor, fixed mind, flap, fomentation, foofaraw, franticness, frenzy, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gift of tongues, glossolalia, hardheadedness, headstrongness, hideboundness, hubbub, hysteria, illiberality, infatuation, inflexible will, insularism, insularity, intolerance, little-mindedness, littleness, madness, mania, mean mind, meanness, monomania, mulishness, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, obduracy, obsessiveness, obstinacy, obstinateness, odium theologicum, opinionatedness, overambitiousness, overanxiety, overanxiousness, overdevoutness, overeagerness, overenthusiasm, overpiousness, overreaction, overreligiousness, overrighteousness, overzealousness, pandemonium, parochialism, partiality, passion, pentecostalism, perfervidness, perseverance, pertinacity, pettiness, petty mind, pigheadedness, prejudice, provincialism, purblindness, rabidness, racket, rage, restiveness, revival, revivalism, row, ruckus, rumpus, sanctimony, self-will, shortsightedness, shut mind, single-mindedness, smallness, stiff neck, stiff-neckedness, storminess, straitlacedness, strongheadness, stubbornness, stuffiness, sulkiness, sullenness, tempestuousness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, ultrazealousness, uncatholicity, uncooperativeness, unregenerateness, uproar, upset, wildness, willfulness, zeal, zealotism, zealotry, zealousness
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