fanaticism

English

Alternative forms

phanaticism (archaic)

Etymology

fanatic +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fəˈnæt.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/
- (US) IPA^(key): [fəˈnæɾ.ɪ.sɪ.zm̩]
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Noun

fanaticism (countable and uncountable, plural fanaticisms)

The characteristic or practice of being a fanatic.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 35:
  The demon of fanaticism was the shape which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce the spiritual chaos to any sort of order.

Translations

characteristic or practice of being a fanatic

Albanian: fanatizëm (sq) m
Arabic: تَعَصُّب m (taʕaṣṣub)
Armenian: ֆանատիզմ (hy) (fanatizm)
Azerbaijani: təəssübkeşlik
Belarusian: фанаты́зм m (fanatýzm), фанаты́чнасць f (fanatýčnascʹ)
Bulgarian: фанати́зъм (bg) m (fanatízǎm), фанати́чност f (fanatíčnost)
Catalan: fanatisme (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 狂熱／狂热 (zh) (kuángrè), 狂信 (zh) (kuángxìn)
Czech: fanatismus (cs) m
Danish: fanatisme c
Dutch: fanatisme (nl) n
Estonian: fanatism
Finnish: fanaattisuus (fi), fanatismi (fi), kiihkoilu (fi), kiihko (fi)
French: fanatisme (fr) m
Galician: fanatismo (gl) m
Georgian: ფანატიზმი (panaṭizmi)
German: Fanatismus (de) m, Eiferertum n
Greek: φανατισμός (el) m (fanatismós)
Hungarian: fanatizmus (hu)
Italian: fanatismo (it) m
Japanese: 狂信 (ja) (きょうしん, kyōshin), ファナティシズム (fanatishizumu)
Korean: 열광(熱狂) (ko) (yeolgwang), 광신(狂信) (ko) (gwangsin), 광신주의(狂信主義) (gwangsinjuui)
Latvian: fanātisms m
Lithuanian: fanatizmas m
Macedonian: фанати́зам m (fanatízam)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fanatisme m
Persian: تعصب (fa) (ta'assob)
Polish: fanatyzm (pl) m
Portuguese: fanatismo (pt) m
Romanian: fanatism (ro) n
Russian: фанати́зм (ru) m (fanatízm), фанати́чность (ru) f (fanatíčnostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фана̀тично̄ст f

Roman: fanàtičnōst (sh) f
Slovak: fanatizmus m
Slovene: fanatizem m
Spanish: fanatismo (es) m
Swedish: fanatism (sv) c
Tajik: таъассуб (taʾassub), таассуб (taassub)
Turkish: bağnazlık (tr), fanatiklik (tr), fanatizm (tr)
Ukrainian: фанати́зм m (fanatýzm), фанати́чність f (fanatýčnistʹ)
Uzbek: mutaassiblik (uz), fanatizm (uz), fanatiklik (uz)

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