Fanaticism is belief so extreme it allows no other view. Religious fanaticism.
The mark of it is not strength of belief but the refusal to hear anything against it. Fanaticism is a word nobody applies to their own side.
1nounfanaticismBelief so extreme it allows no other view.
“Fanaticism on both sides made the talks pointless.”
fanaticism is a belief.
Latin
fānāticus
English
fanatic
English, today
fanaticism
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From fanatic + -ism. fanatic Learned borrowing from Latin fānāticus. First attested in 1525. Latin fānāticus (“of a temple, divinely inspired, frenzied”), from fānum (“temple”). Influenced by French fanatique.
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