Fanaticism Synonyms and Antonyms

fə-nătĭ-sĭzəm
Overenthusiasm
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. zealotry
  2. bigotry
  3. dogmatism
  4. zeal
  5. extremism
  6. militancy
  7. intolerance
  8. obsession
  9. prejudice
  10. superstition
  11. narrow-mindedness
  12. monomania
  13. injustice
  14. obstinacy
  15. stubbornness
  16. bias
  17. unreasonableness
  18. unreasoning zeal
  19. excessive enthusiasm
  20. overenthusiasm
  21. overzealousness
  22. partiality
  23. devotion
  24. warmth
  25. fervor
  26. ardor
  27. partisanship
  28. fanatism
  29. violence
  30. immoderation
  31. radicalism
  32. ultraism
  33. wild and extravagant notions
  34. singlemindedness
  35. infatuation
  36. dogma
  37. arbitrariness
  38. tenacity
  39. enthusiasm
  40. abandonment
  41. frenzy
  42. passion
  43. franticness
  44. obsessiveness
  45. overambitiousness
  46. overanxiousness
Antonyms:
  1. moderation
  2. impartiality
  3. tolerance
  4. disinterest
  5. indifference
  6. unenthusiasm

Words Related to Fanaticism

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Fanaticism Sentence Examples

  • We know but little of Isaiah's predecessors and models in the prophetic art (it were fanaticism to exclude the element of human preparation); but certainly even the acknowledged prophecies of Isaiah (and much more the disputed ones) could no more have come into existence suddenly and without warning than the masterpieces of Shakespeare.

  • The hostility he encountered in the propagation of these new religious ideas after his return to Khorasan in 1052 and Sunnite fanaticism compelled him at last to flee, and after many wanderings he found a refuge in Yumgan (about 1060) in the mountains of Badakshan, where he spent as a hermit the last decades of his life, and gathered round him a considerable number of devoted adherents, who have handed down his doctrines to succeeding generations.

  • Fanaticism took advantage of this order; 1 Scultetus, Annales, ii.

  • Marius had a decided tinge of fanaticism and superstition.

  • Yet even in the enlightened 18th century popular fanaticism made of sacrilege the most heinous offence.

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