Contextualizebeta

fanaticism

noun
/fəˈnæt.ɪ.sɪ.zəm//fəˈnæɾ.ɪ.sɪ.zm̩/US

Etymology

From fanatic + -ism.

  1. learned borrowing from fānāticus — “of a temple, divinely inspired, frenzied”
  2. suffixed as fanaticism — “fanatic + ism”

Definitions

  1. The characteristic or practice of being a fanatic.

    • Witch-hunting became a mania, with all the abuses and excesses which invariably develop with fanaticism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fanaticism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA