Zealotry

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Zealotry \Zeal"ot*ry\, n.
     The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal;
     fanatical devotion to a cause.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Enthusiasm, visionariness, seems the tendency of the


           German; zeal, zealotry, of the English; fanaticism, of
           the French.                              --Coleridge.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  zealotry
       n : excessive intolerance of opposing views [syn: {fanaticism}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "zealotry":
     bibliolatry, bigotry, charismatic gift, charismatic movement,
     charismatic renewal, excessiveness, extravagance, extremeness,
     extremism, fanaticalness, fanaticism, fervor, frenzy, fury,
     gift of tongues, glossolalia, hysteria, infatuation, mania,
     monomania, obsession, obsessiveness, overambitiousness,
     overanxiety, overanxiousness, overdevoutness, overeagerness,
     overenthusiasm, overpiousness, overreaction, overreligiousness,
     overrighteousness, overzealousness, pentecostalism, perfervidness,
     rabidness, radicalism, revival, revivalism, sanctimony,
     single-mindedness, terrorism, ultrazealousness, zeal, zealotism,
     zealousness